Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

Fig. 7.7 (plate 8). Hephaestus (Sethlans) and assistant (Etule) making an artificial horse
(Pecse), Etruscan bronze mirror, fourth century BC, from Orvieto, BnF Cabinet des Medailles,
Bronze.1333, photo Serge Oboukhoff © BnF/CNRS- Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie, 2011.
B. Woodcut of mirror, Victor Duruy, History of Greece (Boston, 1890), redrawn by Michele Angel.