Bronze Mirror

721 BC - 705 BC
Bronze
Khorsabad
21 cm (including shank) x 14.5 cm diam.
A17522

Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Bronze Mirror

This polished bronze mirror is an example of one of the many types of personal grooming implements found in the private homes of many ancient Mesopotamians. Other such implements included combs made from wood or ivory, and tweezers made of copper or silver.

Collected by

Gordon Loud (in charge of excavations at Khorsabad)
Excavated by The Oriental Institute 1934-1935

Multimedia

The Ancient City of Khorsabad
Dr. Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute, discusses the importance of the ancient capital city of Khorsabad in this video.

Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
What was life like in ancient Mesopotamia? Find out in this video featuring Oriental Institute Assyriologist Dr. Martha Roth.

Suggested Readings

Contenau, George. Everyday Life in Babylonia and Assyria. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.

Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

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