Bronze mirror

Unknown

ca. 250–200 BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 250–200 BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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