Etruscan bronze mirror

Classification

mirror

Culture

Etruscan

Dimensions

diameter: 17.5 cm

Date

second half of the 4th century B.C.

Period

Etruscan renaissance (4th century)

Material

bronze

Iconography

border of pearls ; spiral lines ; palmette/palmette frieze ; scroll motif ; child ; Turan ; swan ; mantle ; female figure ; diadem ; rooster

Production place

Etruria

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts

Inventory

57.20.A

ID

Hyp-3649

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 129–130, fig. 95; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 146–148, fig. 96; Szilágyi–Bouzek 1992, 26–30, no. 5, fig. 5a–d; Szilágyi, J. Gy., in BullMusHong 39 (1972), 22–23, 112–114

Trails

Etruscan bronze working