
Su alcuni specchi etruschi rinvenuti nel Viterbese
In: Archeologia Classica: 65, 2014
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On the evidence of the book by Feliciano Bussi, Veterum Etruscorum Monumenta in Viterbiensi (1738), it has been possible to identify the findspot of some Etruscan mirrors. Some of the mirrors published have been lost, while others are exhibited in Italian museums or abroad. Some of them are famous, like a circular tang mirror with Aphrodite on a swan, now in the Cabinet des Medailles. The other mirrors are related to the Lasa and Dioscuri Group, Sack-Peploi Group, Spiky Garland Group. There are also two box mirrors: one with the theme of the drunken Dionysos, supported by Eros; the other with the theme of the recognition of Paris. Since the find spot helps identify the place where the mirrors were produced, I recommend locating and studying the volumes of local scholars in 17th and 18th centuries AD, when antiquarians showed great interest in Etruscan mirrors, which went to enrich private collections abroad.