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Mirror engraved on the backside with a Dionysiac scene of a dancing woman (maenad) wearing a belted tunic, cloak, slippers, earrings, choker, strands of body jewelry, and wrist bracelets, and a satyr playing a double pipe and wearing boots and an animal skin
Mirror engraved on the backside with a Dionysiac scene of a dancing woman (maenad) wearing a belted tunic, cloak, slippers, earrings, choker, strands of body jewelry, and wrist bracelets, and a satyr playing a double pipe and wearing boots and an animal skin

Mirror engraved on the backside with a Dionysiac scene of a dancing woman (maenad) wearing a belted tunic, cloak, slippers, earrings, choker, strands of body jewelry, and wrist bracelets, and a satyr playing a double pipe and wearing boots and an animal skin

Datelate 4th-early 3rd c. BCE
Periodearly Hellenistic
CultureEtruscan
MediumCopper alloy (cast and engraved)
ClassificationMetalwork
ProvenanceA.L. Frothingham; purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ₤250 (along with Metropolitan Museum of Art accession G.R. 123 & 129), 1896; purchased by John Ringling, (The Anderson Galleries, New York, no. 477, $170), March 31, 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.2164
Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1859–1923) acquired Etruscan antiquities when he was the Associate Director of the American Academy in Rome (1895–1896). Before he purchased this mirror, the original design of the satyr’s animal-skin cloak, with hind legs and a tail, was recut with deeper engravings of three erect phalluses.
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DimensionsOverall
Weight: 0.5 pound (212.91 gm)
Height: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
Width: 6.0 in. (15.2 cm)
Diameter: 6 7/16 in. (16.3 cm)
Handle prong
Width (at base): 5/8 in. (1.54 cm)
Width at base of mirror and narrows just before break: 9/16 in. (1.35 cm)
Handle prong
Thickness (at mirror base): 1/8 in. (0.24 cm)
Thickness (just before break): 1/16 in. (0.08 cm)
Mirror
Thickness (at edge): 1/16 in. (0.22 cm)

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