{"data": {"id": 147041, "accession_number": "1972.66", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Box Mirror with Head of Athena, 330\u2013270 BCE. Greece, Hellenistic period. Bronze, partially gilt; diameter: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1972.66", "current_location": "102B Greek", "title": "Box Mirror with Head of Athena", "creation_date": "330\u2013270 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -330, "creation_date_latest": -270, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Greece, Hellenistic period"], "technique": "bronze, partially gilt", "support_materials": [], "department": "Greek and Roman Art", "collection": "GR - Greek", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Diameter: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.113, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.4375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301752, "title": "Year in Review: 1972", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).", "opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"}, {"id": 309838, "title": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol", "description": "<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-07-03T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Athena, the virgin goddess of war and craft, rarely appears on mirrors.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The ancient Greek box mirror resembles a modern, hinged makeup compact in design. While the actual mirror is the top of the bottom half of the box\u2014a highly polished cast-bronze disk\u2014the cover often bears relief decoration. This example features a helmeted head of Athena, a virgin war goddess not typically associated with implements of beauty. Several other aspects suggest that this Athena may have been repurposed from another object in antiquity: the striking difference in patina between relief and case; the irregular (noncircular) shape; and the method of attachment, with rivets through the relief rather than solder.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60779409"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1972.66-box-mirror-with-head"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cooney, John D. \u201cDeluxe Toilet Objects.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 7 (1973): 215\u201321.", "page_number": "", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152486"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n45"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24"}, {"citation": "Schwarzmeier, Agnes. \"A Greek Box Mirror in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 9 (1993): 354-67.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cover, p. 354, 356; Mentioned: p. 354-67", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25161429"}, {"citation": "Schwarzmaier, Agnes. 1997. <em>Griechische Klappspiegel : Untersuchungen Zu Typologie Und Stil. Mitteilungen Des Deutschen Archa\u0308ologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung,</em> 18. Beiheft. 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