Nice Lead Mirror

[quadrans]

Nice Lead Mirror

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-110725

Regards
 Q.

[theemptytrunk]

Very nice, sir!
Would this piece be from the Ottoman Empire?
I think I see Arabic writing.

Jason

[quadrans]

Very nice, sir!
Would this piece be from the Ottoman Empire?
I think I see Arabic writing.

Jason

Hi

Thank you very much

I hope this mirror are from Roman empire..
The ornament are looking like a arabic letters..

 Best regards
 Q.

[SC]

These are Roman lead votive mirrors dating to the 2nd to 3rd centuries.

The decoration is full wavy lines and tendrils but is not writing.

Some of these originally had a small piece of glass in the centre but many (most ??) did not.  As votive items (offered at sacred sites like shrines and temples and wells) they did not have to actually work, they were a symbolic offering.

Shawn
 

[v-drome]

Hi.  Here is one of the most complete ones I have seen.  There is a small indentation at the bottom of the handle, but I don't know if this is a casting remnant or an intentional feature.  The glass is very thin, with a transparent, light green color.  It is slightly curved, convex side to the front.  V-drome.

 BCC L10
Votive Mirror
1st-2nd Century CE
Lead mirror with slightly convex,
transparent green glass.  A small cup shaped
opening in the bottom of handle may have helped secure the
mirror in some type of frame?
8.8cm. x 3.6cm.  Diameter of mirror 1.6cm.
weight: 22.61gm.

For an interesting essay on a votive mirror with an inscription to Aphrodite see:
Sobin, Gustaf. Luminous Debris,  Berkeley:  University of California Press, c1999 1999.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e2560&toc.id=d0e1763&brand=ucpress

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5j49p06s/

[quadrans]

These are Roman lead votive mirrors dating to the 2nd to 3rd centuries.

The decoration is full wavy lines and tendrils but is not writing.

Some of these originally had a small piece of glass in the centre but many (most ??) did not.  As votive items (offered at sacred sites like shrines and temples and wells) they did not have to actually work, they were a symbolic offering.

Shawn
 

Hi Shawn thank you very much your remarks.. 

 best regards
 Q.

[quadrans]

Hi.  Here is one of the most complete ones I have seen.  There is a small indentation at the bottom of the handle, but I don't know if this is a casting remnant or an intentional feature.  The glass is very thin, with a transparent, light green color.  It is slightly curved, convex side to the front.  V-drome.

 BCC L10
Votive Mirror
Late Roman?
Lead mirror with slightly convex,
transparent green glass.  A small cup shaped
opening in the bottom of handle may have helped secure the
mirror in some type of frame?
8.8cm. x 3.6cm.  Diameter of mirror 1.6cm.
weight: 22.61gm.

For an interesting essay on a votive mirror with an inscription to Aphrodite see:
Sobin, Gustaf. Luminous Debris,  Berkeley:  University of California Press, c1999 1999.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5j49p06s&chunk.id=d0e2560&toc.id=d0e1763&brand=ucpress

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5j49p06s/

 Hi v-drome..

Thank you very much your supplement ..
The suggested literatura are useful...

Best regards
 Q.