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Title:Bronze mirror
Period:Late Classical
Date:ca. 350–300 BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:diameter 6 1/2in. (16.5cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1909
Object Number:09.221.17
Inscription: Inscribed: Odysseus (Uthste), Circe (Cerca), and Elpenor (Velparun)
Said to have been found in the neighborhood of Campiglia Marittima, hence presumably from the necropolis of ancient Vetulonia (Colonna), Italy (Körte 1884-1897, p. 223, no. 22: “Gefunden in der Nähe von Campiglia marittima, vermuthlich also aus der Nekropole des alten Vetulonia (Colonna)”)
By 1892 and until 1898, collection of Count Michal Tyszkiewicz (1828-1897), Paris and Rome; [June 6-7, 1898, sold through Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 129)]; [until 1909, with Rollin&Feuardent/F. Feuardent, Paris]; acquired in 1909, purchased from Rollin&Feuardent/F. Feuardent.
Tyszkiewicz, Michal Count and Wilhelm Froehner. 1892. La collection Tyszkiewicz; choix de monuments antiques, avec texte explicatif de W. Fröhner. p. 36, pl. XXXIX, Munich: Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft.
Körte, Gustav and Adolf Klügmann. 1897. "Etruskische Spiegel." Mythologische Darstellungen, Vol. 5, Eduard Gerhard, ed. no. 22, p. 223, Berlin: G. Reimer.
1898. Collection d'antiquités du Comte Michel Tyszkiewicz. no. 129, p. 44.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1910. "Department of Classical Art: The Accessions of 1909. II. Bronzes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5(4): pp. 95, 99, fig. 8.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 800, pp. 276–77, New York: Gilliss Press.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 70–71, fig. 89, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 70–71, fig. 89, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1955. Ancient Italy : a study of the interrelations of its peoples as shown in their arts. p. 21, fig. 83, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Touchefeu-Meynier, Odette. 1968. Thèmes Odysséens dans l'Art Antique. no. 218, pp. 101, 110, 118, 124 n. 55, 131, 290, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. "Elpenor," p. 721, no. 2, pl. 550, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.
Buitron-Oliver, Diana. 1992. The Odyssey and Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image. no. no. 28, pp. 86, 92–3, Annandale-on-Hudson: Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Bonfante, Larissa. 1997. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corpus Speculorun Etruscorum, Vol. U.S.A. 3. no. 15, pp. 49–52, figs. 15a-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. 15, pp. 49–52, figs. 15a–d, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider.
Andreae, Bernard. 1999. Odysseus: Mythos und Erinnerung. no. 191, p. 395, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
Bonfante, Larissa. 2000. "Alcuni specchi etruschi nel Metropolitan Museum of Art." Aspetti e problemi della produzione degli specchi etruschi figurati: atti dell'incontro internazionale di studio, Roma 2-4 maggio 1997, Maria Donatella Gentili, ed. pp. 21–23, fig. 5, Rome: Aracne.
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 and Prof. Larissa Bonfante. 2006. The Religion of the Etruscans. pp. 20–21, fig. 2.17, Austin: University of Texas Press.
Bonfante, Larissa. 2006. "Etruscan Inscriptions and Etruscan Religion." The Religion of the Etruscans, Nancy Thomson De Grummond and Erika Simon, eds. pp. 20–1, fig. II.17, Austin: University of Texas Press.
Aldona, Snitkuviene. 2008. Birzu Grafai Tiskeviciai Ir Ju Palikimas. no. 820, p. 245, Kaunas, Lithuania: M.K. ̆Ciurlionio Dailė Muziejus.
de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 6.6, pp. 172, 177, New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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