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Etruscan Bronze Mirror Engraved with Prometheus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 03.24.3)

Etruscan bronze mirror, early 3rd century BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art 03.24.3

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An Etruscan bronze mirror, early 3rd century BCE, Hellenistic period, its back engraved with a mythological scene. The Metropolitan Museum's own catalogue tags the mirror with Prometheus, alongside Male Nudes, Minerva and Herakles, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene shown. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 03.24.3, Greek and Roman Art department, Rogers Fund, 1903.

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Bronze, engraved on the back with the mythological scene the museum's own catalogue tags as depicting Prometheus, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene itself. 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Minerva, Deities

This source names Minerva directly: "with Prometheus, alongside Male Nudes, Minerva and Herakles, though the museum's record carries no narrative description of the scene shown."

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Depicts

Prometheus, Figures

The Met's own catalogue tags this Etruscan mirror with Prometheus, its own controlled-vocabulary identification of a figure in the engraved scene, though the record carries no narrative sentence naming the moment, hence stance associated rather than holds.

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