Circular hand and standing mirrors
with decorated handle or mostly figuratively designed stand, made of polished metal, bronze, also silver, there was since archaic time in the Greek and Grecian influence area.
Hand mirrors were already produced in Mycenaean times. Since Hellenism, the Etruscans have widely used hand mirrors, with incised drawings of figures and ornaments on the back. In the 5th century B.C. the folding mirror came into fashion in Greece, whose mirror surface was protected by the frequently decorated lid. In antiquity there were already small glass mirrors.
This standing mirror as a statue of a dressed woman, presumably a priestess, probably originally wore a bronze, polished mirror disk on the wings carried on the head. It is no longer preserved.
The original has a size of 22.1 cm, so the replica is 2 cm smaller. The bronze mirror is exhibited in the museum in Thasos under inventory number 1467, dating back to the 2nd half of the 6th century BC.
