Odysseus and Circe
- Title
- Odysseus and Circe
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Mirror Bronze 724
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Etruscan (artist)
- Description
- Bronze circular tanged mirror. Chased decoration. Edge has a channel between two rows of beading. Palmette motif on base of obverse. On the reverse, there is a border decoration of intertwined ivy trails. The main scene is of two confronted people - a naked standing man and a seated woman. They could be interpreted as Utuse (Odysseus) and either Kirke (Circe) or Antikleia, Odysseus' mother . The owner's name is inscribed vertically in the centre. --The British Museum Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899; Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, London, BMP, 2002
- Inscription
- Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Position: Centrally positioned, witten vertically right to left, top to bottom Inscription Language: Etruscan Inscription Transliteration: mi than ( ) cvilus fulnial Inscription Translation: I belong to Thancvil Fulni --The British Museum
- View
- Front; Detail
- Coverage
- Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- 400-375 BCE
- Subject
- Book 10 Circe Odyssey I
- Style Period
- Classical Etruscan (culture or style)
- Work Type
- mirrors
- Date
- -0400/-0375
- View Date
- 1987-11
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_02174
- Item Locator
- Box 5, Section 22
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Diameter: 15.3 cm Height: 20.2 cm Weight: 506 g
- Material
- bronze | chased
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Etruscan (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1868,0520.55
