Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1: 'Bronze mirror case Labelled: Ancient mirror case'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card 1 notes: 'Found at Caere or Argylla (Cervetere).'
Event Date
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2: 'Bronze mirror, circular, cover lost'
Event Date
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in ink: 'Caere or Argylla, Cervetere, Italy'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
G. Lloyd-Morgan: '3rd century BC'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Sampled for metal analysis to be included in the 'Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors'. Drilling taken by Dr. J.A. Charles of the Department of Metallurgy and Material Science on 17 May 1985 and examined by atomic absorption analysis by Dr M. Hughes of the British Museum Research lab. Drill holes filled at the Fitzwilliam Museum, with Paraloid B72 and ground mineral pigments. See MM1/7/18 for note by Julie Dawson (16 July 1985) with drawing and details.
Event Date 17/5/1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Richard Nicholls: 'Circular mirror cast as flanged disc, possibly once lidded. Obverse: Moderately convex reflecting face; lathe- or wheel-trimmed horizontal relief bands on lower part of flange, top of uppermost providing slight projection against which missing lid might have closed. Reverse: Wheel-cut relief pattern of wide and narrow concentric circles around small raised inner circle containing centre point and extending out almost to angle of flange.'
Event Date 1993
Author: maa

Context (References)
Nicholls, Richard. (1993). Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum. Great Britain 2, Cambridge: Corpus Christi College, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p 40 & plates 16a-b.
Event Date 1993
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
The Nicholls publication (see above) gives the date as Etruscan, advanced Late Classical-Hellenistic. The copper alloy composition is copper 89.1%, tin 6.41%, lead 1.35%. The description field has been updated with Nicholls' description.
Event Date 1993
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Circular copper alloy mirror, cast as a flanged disc, possibly once lidded. The obverse is slightly convex. The reverse is decorated with concentric circles, with incised lines and raised bands. The edge of the mirror rises upwards on the reverse. Part of the edge is fragmented and corroded.
Event Date 18/3/2024
Author: Esther Laver