Etruscan inscriptions identify the rather obscure characters depicted here. At the center is Zipunu, a lesser Etruscan goddess often associated with Turan (Latin: Venus). She is flanked by the obscure Etruscan heroes Prucnas and Thalna. The engraver paid meticulous attention to details of the eyes, hair, fingernails, footwear, jewelry, and musculature. The figures are set off against an unusual stippled background.
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Title:Bronze mirror
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 350–300 BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:9 1/4 x 6 11/16in. (23.5 x 17cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number:22.139.61
Inscription: The names Zipunu, Prucnas, and Thalna are inscribed in Etruscan.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1994. Vol. 7: Oidipous-Theseus. "Thalna," p. 901, no. 11, pl. 615, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Bonfante, Larissa. 1997. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corpus Speculorun Etruscorum, Vol. U.S.A. 3. no. 20, pp. 59–60, figs. 20a-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. 20, pp. 59–60, figs. 20a–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.
De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. 2006. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. pp. 152–53, 155, fig. 7.10, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 6.13, pp. 181–82, 259, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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