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Two-horse chariot driven by a woman
Most Praenestine mirrors have a distinctive pear-shaped disc, unlike the circular discs of mirrors produced in Etruria. In this example, a product of the same workshops that made the cistae in this case, the female figure driving a chariot is probably Thesan (Greek: Eos), the Etruscan goddess of the dawn.
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Title: Bronze mirror
Period: Hellenistic
Date: ca. 330–300 BCE
Culture: Praenestine
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Other: 7 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. (18.1 x 34.3 cm)
Classification: Bronzes
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession Number: 41.160.406
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