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Bronze mirror

ca. 250–200 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 170
Engraved design with two men and two women: two outer figures are men wearing Phrygian hats and boots. Between them stand two women, one mostly nude, the other clothed, each turning toward the man next to her. In the absence of inscriptions identifying the figures, the male twins are usually called Castor and Pollux, the Dioskouroi; the two central figures are harder to identify: the nude female may be Turan (Aphrodite, Venus) or Helen, the Dioskouroi's sister; the dressed figure with Phrygian hat is probably Minerva.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bronze mirror
  • Period: Hellenistic
  • Date: ca. 250–200 BCE
  • Culture: Etruscan
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: length 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.); diameter 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm.)
  • Classification: Bronzes
  • Credit Line: Museum Accession
  • Object Number: X.21.86
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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