Mirror

between 300 and 275 BCE

Etruscan

On View

Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Mirror

Artwork Date between 300 and 275 BCE

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Etruscan

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 12 1/16 × 6 7/8 × 7/16 inches (30.6 × 17.5 × 1.1 cm)

Classification Metalwork

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 47.399

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(E. S. David)

1947-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Robinson, F.W. "A Cast and Engraved Bronze Mirror," Bulletin of the DIA 27, no. 3 (1948): pp. 67-68 (ill.).

Ancient Italic and Etruscan Art. Exh. cat., DIA. January 14-February 23, 1958. [cat?]

The Etruscans: Artists of Early Italy. Exh. cat., Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore, Mar 16-May 4, 1958. [cat?]

Hill, D. K. "A "Cista Praenestina" in the Collection of the Walters Art Gallery." In Hommages à Albert Grenier, ed. by M. Renard. Brussels: Latonus, 1962, p. 814 (article pp. 809-16).

Cummings, F.J., and C. H. Elam. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook, 1971, p. 36.

de Grummond, N. T. "Forgeries," in A Guide to Etruscan Mirrors, ed. N.T. de Grummond. Tallahassee: Archaeological News, Inc., 1982, p. 66, (fig. 64) (article 61-8).

De Puma, R. D. Corpus speculorum etruscorum: United States, vol. 1: Midwestern Collections, Ames: Iowa University Press, 1987, pp. 38-9, (fig. 21a-d).

DePuma, R. D. "Engraved Etruscan Mirrors: Questions of Authenticity." In Atti del Secondo Congresso Internazionale Etrusco: Firenze 26 maggio-2 giugno 1985, ed. by G. Maetzke, Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 1989, pp. 698-711, (fig. 5-6, 13), pl. III (article 695-712).

Caccioli, D. A. The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14, Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009, cat. no. 10, p. 39-43, ill. pl. 17-20.

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Etruscan, Mirror, between 300 and 275 BCE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 47.399.

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