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Title:Bronze mirror
Period:Hellenistic
Date:late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Culture:Praenestine
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:length 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm); diameter 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Purchase by subscription, 1896
Accession Number:96.18.16
Inscription: Inscribed: "IOVEI-IUNO-HERCELE" in Latin
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 827, pp. 286–87, New York: Gilliss Press.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles/Hercle," pp. 237–38, no. 395, pl. 184; "Iuno," p. 851, no. 336, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Bonfante, Larissa. 1997. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corpus Speculorun Etruscorum, Vol. U.S.A. 3. no. 7, pp. 32–34, figs. 7a-d, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Bonfante, Larissa. 1997. Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum: U.S.A. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 3. no. 7, pp. 32–34, figs. 7a–d, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 200, Rome: American Academy in Rome.
Bonfante, Larissa. 2000. "Alcuni specchi etruschi nel Metropolitan Museum of Art." Aspetti e problemi della produzione degli specchi etruschi figurati: atti dell'incontro internazionale di studio, Roma 2-4 maggio 1997, Maria Donatella Gentili, ed. pp. 17–19, fig. 3, Rome: Aracne.
Wiman, Ingela M. B. 2000-2001. "Review of Etruscan Mirrors, by L. Bonfante." Opuscula Romana, Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom: pp. 125–8.
Höckmann, Ursula. 2002. "Reviewed Work: Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum. U.S.A. 3: New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Larissa Bonfante." Gnomon, 74(1): pp. 43–46.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 6.11, pp. 7, 147, 180, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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