Etruscan Mirrors Now

The mirror of Theopompus: Etruscan identity and Greek myth

“…3 In this article mirrors from all five volumes will be referred to simply by reference to Gerhard and the plate number (Roman numerals for vols 1-4; the Roman V followed by Arabic numerals for volume 5). 4 For instance that carried out on the thickness, curvature and diameter of mirrors in the Cabinet des Medailles - Rebuffat-Emmanuel, 1973: 368-84; see also Leoni and Panseri, 1957;De Puma, 1980: 25. The ongoing publication of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum (Serra Ridgway, 2000;de Grummond, 2002) is producing more such analyses, and sometimes surprising results (CSE Great Britain 1, British Museum I, 2000;Swaddling et al, 2000). Etruscan mirrors survive today (Bonfante, 1994: 245) and, in those for which we have excavation data, the funerary context is the rule (de Grummond, 1982: 172-7;van der Meer, 1995: 5, 27-8, n. 7;Serra Ridgway, 2000: 417 and n. 50).…”

“…4 For instance that carried out on the thickness, curvature and diameter of mirrors in the Cabinet des Medailles -Rebuffat-Emmanuel, 1973: 368-84; see also Leoni and Panseri, 1957;De Puma, 1980: 25. The ongoing publication of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum (Serra Ridgway, 2000;de Grummond, 2002) is producing more such analyses, and sometimes surprising results (CSE Great Britain 1, British Museum I, 2000;Swaddling et al, 2000).…”