The attached photo features a small round convex glass mirror with a gypsum frame shaped like a fish or perhaps a dolphin. The tail of the creature served as the handle for the mirror.The visible hole was perhaps made for the purpose of fixing the mirror onto a wall or some piece of furniture.
Provenance: Hauran.
Dimensions of the frame: length 19.8 cm, width 9.2 cm, thickness 1.1 cm. Diameter of the glass sheet 3.6 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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