Mirror
Object Number: | 48-2-201 |
Current Location: | Etruscan Italy Gallery Currently On Display |
Culture: | Etruscan |
Provenience: | Italy Etruria Vetulonia |
Date Made: | 400-350 BC |
Early Date: | -400 |
Late Date: | -350 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Bronze |
Outside Diameter: | 15cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
Other Number | 315 - Collector Number L-2-254 - Old Loan Number |
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.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Classical World - Etruscan World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M. 2005. Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp.211-212, no.218 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
[Book] Warden, P. G. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 26-27, no. 53; p. 312, figs. 44-45 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
[Thesis] 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. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 54-55, no. 53 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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