id:			133695
accession number:	1956.31
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.31
updated:		2025-08-07 21:58:40.284000

Mirror with a Handle in the Form of a Herakles Knot, c. 280–400 CE. Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period. Silver; diameter: 2.3 x 34.6 cm (7/8 x 13 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1956.31

title:				Mirror with a Handle in the Form of a Herakles Knot
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creation date:			c. 280–400 CE
creation date earliest:		280
creation date latest:		400
current location:		104 Late Antiquity
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Byzantium, Syria(?), Byzantine period
technique:	silver
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 2.3 x 34.6 cm (7/8 x 13 5/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	reportedly found on the coast of Syria south of Latakia, from a treasure of eleven pieces.  (Milton Girod, Sarthe, France).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, Henry Maguire, and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers. <em>Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House</em>. Urbana: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989. p. 194.
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	Lerner, Judith. "Horizontal-Handled Mirrors: East and West." <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em>, Volume 31(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996). pp. 11-40.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 47
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n23

	Milliken, William. "Early Byzantine Silver." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>45, no. 3 (March 1958): 35-40.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 37; Reproduced: p. 44
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265

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