Mirror Back with Great Goddess

400–550 CE Overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.65

An important female deity commands the watery scene on the back of this mirror. The face, bordered by ear ornaments and partially hidden by a nose ornament, appears beneath a huge headdress with the fringed eyes and curled proboscis of an abstract butterfly. The deity rests on...

Sculpture

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