NAMES FROM HOMER IN ETRUSCAN

MS 565/1
MS Short Title NAMES FROM HOMER IN ETRUSCAN
Text ETRUSCAN NAMES FROM HOMER, THE ILIAD: ELSANTRE (PARIS ALEXANDROS), TURAN (APHRODITE), MENERVA (ATHENE), AND UNI (JUNO, HERA)S
Description MS in Etruscan on bronze, Vulchi, Etruria, Italy, mid 4th c. BC, 1 mirror, diam. 18 cm, engraved names in Etruscan script, with engravings of high quality of the Judgement of Paris from Homer's Iliad.
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Context For other Etruscan inscriptions, see MSS 564 and 565/2.
Provenance 1. Friz Hugelmann, Ascona.
Commentary From the "Perugia group" of 5 mirrors of this motive. One of these is published in: Maja Sprenger, Gilda Bartoloni: Die Etrusker, Kunst und Geschichte, München, Hirmer Verlag, p. 152, no. 237.
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Place of origin Italy
Dates mid 4c BC