Mirror
MS5444
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Perugia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5444 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Perugia |
| Date Made | 499-400 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Description | Hand-mirror. Circular, the edges on the mirror side turned up slightly. Small metal handles: "This handle consists of two thin plates of bronze fastened by three rivets to a tang prjecting from the mirror proper." Palmette and lotus bud border. 4 figures on ground line of hatched triangles. Purification of Orestes. Figures named by inscriptions above each. Left to right: female figure, Vanth; standing male figure, Apollo; kneeling naked male figure, Orestes; standing female figure, Metua. Orestes clutches omphalos. |
| Length | 20 cm |
| Width | 18.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Fairman Rogers, 1893 |
| Other Number | 17788 - Old Museum Number |
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