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Etruscan Bronze Mirror Engraved with Prometheus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 03.24.3)

Greco-Roman Art

An Etruscan bronze mirror, early 3rd century BCE, Hellenistic period, its back engraved with a mythological scene. The Metropolitan Museum's own catalogue tags the mirror with Prometheus, alongside Male Nudes, Minerva and Herakles, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene shown. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 03.24.3, Greek and Roman Art department, Rogers Fund, 1903.

Facts
Physical Form
Medium
Bronze, engraved on the back with the mythological scene the museum's own catalogue tags as depicting Prometheus, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene itself. 1
Classification
Object Type
Metalwork or Jewelry 1
Medium (class)
Metalwork 1
Connections

Associated With

Minerva, Deities

This source names Minerva directly: "with Prometheus, alongside Male Nudes, Minerva and Herakles, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene shown."

Source Etruscan Bronze Mirror, accession 03.24.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Belongs to Tradition

Ancient Greek Religion, Religions
Source Etruscan Bronze Mirror, accession 03.24.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Depicts

Prometheus, Figures

The Met's own catalogue tags this Etruscan mirror with Prometheus, its own controlled-vocabulary identification of a figure in the engraved scene, though the record carries no narrative sentence naming the moment, hence stance associated rather than holds.

Source Etruscan Bronze Mirror, accession 03.24.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Originated In

Etruria, Regions
Source Etruscan Bronze Mirror, accession 03.24.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Sources
1. Etruscan Bronze Mirror, accession 03.24.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • accession 03.24.3
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    An Etruscan bronze mirror, early 3rd century BCE, Hellenistic period, its back engraved with a mythological scene.
  • Originated In: Etruria, Collection record: culture, country and region fields
    Etruscan
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Etruscan art (Wikipedia)
In Group: Etruscan Art, Etruscan bronze mirror, early 3rd century BCE, Hellenistic periodView the Source
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