Bronze mirror with ivory handle
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
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Bronze mirror with ivory handle
1520 CE – 1450 BCE
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
Antheia, Messenia
Mirror
BronzeWidth: 25.5 cm
The bronze disc is oxidised and worn around its perimeter. The ivory handle is relatively well-preserved on one side. The mirror comprises a thin, flat, round, undecorated disc. The part of the handle that covers part of the disc is four-sided, decorated with two relief, facing whorl shells (pointing downward) with a scale pattern between them, as well as on the curved end of the handle. On either side of the whorl-shells two holes (for fastening the handle to the disc). Below that, decoration of a double relief band with a curved tip towards the top of the handle. Three more relief bands at the lower part of the prismatic (8-sided) handle shaft. The other side is decorated in the same way, although rather worn.