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
MediumCopper alloy (cast and engraved)
Dimensions8 3/8 × 6 × 1/8 × 6 7/16 in. (21.3 × 15.2 × 0.3 × 16.4 cm)
ClassificationsMetalwork
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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second quarter of the 6th c. BCE
