Mirror with Heracles, Dionysus, Ariadne, and Eros
In order to create a reflective surface, the front of ancient mirrors were either highly polished or covered with a thin layer of silver. Engraved on the back of this mirror is a scene from the Greek myth of the marriage of Dionysus. The figures are identified by engraved insc...
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[Found at Fattoraccio, Castel Giorgio in the district of Orvieto, 1877]; Biagio Bucciosanti, Orvieto, 1877, by excavation. Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown]; sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani: Objets d'art antiques, Rome, March 17-April 10, 1884, p. 36, lot 188. Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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