EC.53.115 Culture: ? Item: Lamp Date: ? Description: Iron lamp. Handle curved with hole in the top to attach for hanging. Cover on top can be opened. Decorated around the edge with two dogs and a rabbit. Dimensions: h: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) l: 4 in. (10.2 cm) w: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

EC.53.142 Culture: Etruscan Item: Bronze mirror Date: 19th-century Italian forgery of a 3rd century BCE original. The original is held in the British Museum (inv. 1966.3.28.13). This replica was likely made around 1870. Description: Peleus grabs the winged Thetis. For another replica of the original mirror, see Comstock and Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, fig. 390. Vase paintings of Peleus abducting Thetis may be found on the Perseus Project web page: tondo inside the Berlin F2279 kylix, scene on the Boston 1972.850 Calyx krater. Dimensions: l: 7 3/4 in. (18.7 cm) d: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)

In 1997, as an assignment for Dr. Katina Lillios's archaeological methods course, student Patrick Fuhrman contacted Dr. Richard De Puma, a leading expert in Etruscan mirrors at the University of Iowa. De Puma recognized this mirror as one of 13 replicas made in the 19th century, shortly after its original was published by the British Museum around 1846.

Patrick Fuhrman, Class of 1998

Detail by Joel Steinpreis, Class of 1999

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