The glass mirrors in the attached photograph are made of thin convex glass sheets surrounded by a frame made of gypsum.
Provenance: Dibsī (northeast of Aleppo).
Dimensions: diameter of the frames 7.5 cm and 4.9 cm, respectively. Thickness 2.1 cm and 1.5 cm.
Era: Roman.
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-marāyā al-qadīmā wa namāḏiǧihā fi al-matḥaf al-waṭanī bi Dimašq. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XX 1970 (pp. 9 - 27).
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