On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Mirror depicting Venus Victrix Surrounded by Three Erotes and a herm of Priapus,
late 1st century CE
Roman
Roman Imperial Period, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE
y1985-1
Information
Title
Mirror depicting Venus Victrix Surrounded by Three Erotes and a herm of Priapus
Dates
late 1st century CE
Medium
Gilded bronze
Dimensions
diam. 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Class of 1963
Object Number
y1985-1
Place Made
Roman Empire
Culture
Period
Techniques
Formerly in the Peyrefitte Collection; purchased from the Galerie Archeologie by the Museum in 1985.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, pp. 16–17 (illus.)
- Ada Cohen, " Mistress' bronzes from the Classical world", in A. Brauer, ed., Teaching with objects: the curatorial legacy of David Gordon Mitten, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museum, 2010). , p. 85; fig. 4.
