An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c23.s5.6

v1.c23.s5.6

Three mirrors and a mirror-case or *patera*, which have been ascribed to Roman workmanship or its local imitation, have also been found in the Kundangar hoard in a large metal pot buried in a room of a house of the Sātavāhana period (*c*. 1st to 3rd centuries A.D.) at BRAHMAPURI (Khandalavala, 1960, pp. 29-75). Of them, all datable to the 2nd century, the two smaller ones, respectively 6·66 and 7·30 cm in diameter, and having concentric grooves or *omphalos* are considered to be miniature local imitation of the third which is of Roman workmanship. This last one which is convex in shape and 18 cm in diameter, with *omphalos* is smaller to one of the Taxila specimens (Marshall, 1951, pl. 181 f). Besides these ‘a thin circular metal repoussé emblem with very slightly upturned rim indicating that it formed the base of some form of dish or may be the decorative pattern of a small mirror-case’, of copper, 8·2 cm in diameter, has also been found in the hoard which, according to Khandalavala, is probably from a mirror case or *patera* depicting the legend of Perseus and Andromeda and is probably of Alexandrian workmanship.