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A Roman Silver Mirror ‘Discovered’ in the British Museum: A Note on its Composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

P.T. Craddock
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 131 - 132
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1983

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17 ‘There are hardly a dozen pieces with this type of handle. The key pieces which come from Pompeii and other local sites are as follows:

Louvre, no. 2160, Villa Boscoreale Treasure, ex colln. Tyszkiewicz Heron de Villefosse, Mon. Piot, V (1899), no. 98.Google Scholar

Mus. Arch. Naz. Naples, no. 110861, noted by Villefosse as a parallel for the Boscoreale mirror: L'argenterie et les bijoux d'or du trésor de Boscoreale (1903), p. 161, n. 1. This piece alone has an extra engraved band of palmettes, etc., on the reverse of the disc which links it up well with other early Campanian types of mirror.

Naples, nos. 111123; 112340; 118983; 74924, also numbered 6677.

Antiquarium Pompeii, no. 1137/4, a ‘s o numbered 2480.

Royal Scot. Mus. Edinburgh, no. 1887. 240, no provenance. Gift of Sir Hugh Hume-Campbell 1887 along with other misc. classical antiquities.

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There are also a number of miscellaneous handles of uncertain provenance, some now lost. There are a few copies or derived pieces in bronze and base metal from the provinces.’

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21 Pliny, Natural History, book xxxiii, esp. chapter xlv.

22 Ibid., xxxiv, xlvii–viii.

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