Hand Mirror with Engraved Scene of Two Warriors

early 3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)

15.3 cm 28.3 cm

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The engraved scene on this mirror shows two men wearing different styles of armor. The man on the left wears a laminated corselet, while the man on the right wears a muscled cuirass. The differences in their armor may be meant to indicate the men are from opposite sides of a c...

Artifact

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28296
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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6
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Terms

Culture
Etruscan
Medium
bronze
Genre
mirrors

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