Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.142

c11.142

of a human figure as a mirror handle, though familiar in Egypt in the XVIII Dynasty (from about 1570 B.C.), is unknown in Western Asia. The close resemblance between the Mehi mirror-handle and the clay figurines of women from the same site, and from other sites of the Kulli Culture, increases our confidence in claiming it as a local product, and as a very considerable tribute to the inventive genius of the Baluchistan metal-smiths of the period. There was another mirror from the Mehi cemetery, but this was merely a circular disc 5 inches across and without a handle - a simple mirror form known for instance in the earliest cemetery at Susa in Elam, and also at Mohenjo-daro, where handled types also occur, though without ornament or distinctive shape to the handle.