Four specimens, each of which features a gypsum frame encompassing five tiny glass mirrors, one central and four peripheral. The purpose of this curious design is unclear.
Provenance: Dibsī (northeast of Aleppo).
Diameter of the frames 10.7 - 11.8 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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