This scene of Eros assisting the fishing Aphrodite may be derived from similar representations on red-figure Greek pottery. Its significance is unknown.
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Title:Bronze mirror
Period:Late Classical
Date:ca. 350 BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:length 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm); diameter 7 1/16 in. (18 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number:07.260
[Until 1907, with Paul Hartwig, Rome]; acquired in 1907, purchased from P. Hartwig.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1908. "New Accessions in the Classical Department: V. Miscellaneous Bronzes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3(5): no. 7, pp. 89–90, fig. 1.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 814, pp. 280–81, New York: Gilliss Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1955. Ancient Italy : a study of the interrelations of its peoples as shown in their arts. p. 27, fig. 109, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Bonfante, Larissa. 1997. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corpus Speculorun Etruscorum, Vol. U.S.A. 3. no. 12, pp. 43–44, figs. 12a-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. 12, pp. 43–44, figs. 12a–d, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
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.
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