mirror
- Museum number
- 1772,0304.7.4
- Description
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Bronze mirror cast in low relief, with added silver decoration. The design on the back shows Herakles (Hercle) abducting Mlacuch. Both Herakles and Mlacuch have their names inscribed below them.
- Production date
- 500BC-475BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17.80 centimetres
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Weight: 848 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Jenkins & Sloan 1996
In keeping with the thinking of his day, d'Hancarville believed such one-handled mirrors to be sacrificial paterae, the scenes on them relating to the cults of the deities at whose altars they were used. He thought the female figure in the scene to be Minerva, who is shown restraining Hercules from entering on the path of valour'.
LITERATURE: For the mirror see d'Hancarville, MS Catalogue, 1, p. 284, no. 4; 11, p. 492; Swaddling, Corpus Speculorum Estruscorum, GB 1, 20.
- Location
- On display (G71/dc4)
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1772,0304.7.4
