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English: This is a detail from a Bronze Mirror cover. The cover shows sex between two people on a bed. Above the two people is an image inside a shutter.[1] The image is of a sexual scene.

This detail shows the shutter with the image inside it.

Found on the Esquiline Hill, Rome.[1]

Date: 70 - 90 ce

Mirror cover[2]

Bronze

Dimension: diameter: 6 1/2 in.

Antiquarium Communale, Rome.

Inv. 13694
Date
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Title: "Eros in antiquity" Creator/Contributor: Mulas, Antonia Publication date: 1978 Publisher: Erotic Art Book Society

Location: New York
Author Antonia Mulas
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  1. a b Clarke, John (2014) "Sexuality and visual representation" in Thomas Hubbard , ed. A companion to Greek and Roman sexualities, Blackwell, p. 519 ISBN: 978-1-4051-9572-0.
  2. John R Clarke (1998) Looking at Lovemaking, University of California Press

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