Mirror Back with Great Goddess
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Cleveland Museum of Art Object Description
An important female deity commands the watery scene on the back of this mirror. The face, bordered by ear ornaments and partially hidden by a nose ornament, appears beneath a huge headdress with the fringed eyes and curled proboscis of an abstract butterfly. The deity rests on a shell-studded water band and two adoring humans offer flowers or incense in a bag. Mirrors served as costume ornaments and perhaps were used in rituals to divine the unknown.
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Mirror Back with Great Goddess, 400–550 CE, Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0.
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