Mirror

Object Number:

48-2-201

Current Location:

Etruscan Italy Gallery

Culture:

Etruscan

Provenience:

Italy
Etruria
Vetulonia

Date Made:

400-350 BC

Early Date:

-400

Late Date:

-350

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Bronze

Description:

Hand mirror. Green patina. Very corroded and incomplete. handle is separate. A strip of lead was used to mend a crack which cut across the girls neck and left shoulder in a design on the back. Girl wearing a shawl.

Credit Line:

Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harold) Paumgarten

Other Number:

315	-	Field No SF
L-2-254	-	Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 211-212

[Book] Warden, Gregory P. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 26-27

[Catalogue] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.

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