Mirrors in Egypt (Old Kingdom - Roman Period)

(about 2500 BC - 400 AD)

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Old Kingdom

Badari tomb 3191	Qau tomb 462	Qau tomb 767	Qau tomb 1089

First Intermediate Period

Badari tomb 3107	Badari tomb 3298	Badari tomb 4903	Badari tomb 5313

Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC)

Abydos tomb 90	Asyut, tomb of Mesehti	Badari tomb 4979	Qau tomb 914	Harageh 124

New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC)

Gurob	unknown provenance

(compare Buhen)

Late Period

unknown provenance

Roman Period

Roman mirrors

(unprovenanced?) Roman mirrors (from Egypt)

(unprovenanced?) Roman glass mirrors; following Pliny, Natural History, 36.193 glass mirrors were invented at Sidon in the first century AD. Surviving examples date earliest to the second century AD.
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