The size of this convex glass mirror is exceptionally small relative to its gypsum frame. The frame features an ornament consisting of concentric dark green circles on a yellowish to reddish background.
Provenance: Dibsī (northeast of Aleppo).
Diameter of the frame 12.5 cm with a thickness of 1,2 cm. Diameter of the glass sheet 2 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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