This small mirror is round in shape except for the stump of a handle. The glass sheet is surrounded by a gypsum frame ornamented with two concentric circles with the space in between filled with a zigzagged line.
Provenance: Dibsī (northeast of Aleppo).
Dimensions: diameter of the frame 8.5 cm and thickness 1 cm. Diameter of the glass sheet 3.3 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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