Patera Support: Lasa
300–175 BC
Maker Unknown
Greek and Roman Art
Patera Support: Lasa, 300–175 BC. Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC. Bronze with silver inlays; overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.68 Standing on a triangular base, this winged female figure twists her body while admiring herself in the small mirror held in her left hand. Nearly nude, she wears sandals as well as a leopard or panther skin and jewelry inlaid with silver. Above her head and wings, a small portion of a patera, or shallow offering dish, survives. Inscriptions identify similar winged female figures elsewhere in Etruscan art as Lasas, often together with Turan (an Etruscan goddess analogous to the Greek Aphrodite). This elaborate figure served as a handle or support for a patera, a shallow dish.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- bronze with silver inlays
- Dimensions
- Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Greek and Roman Art
- Accession Number
- 1947.68
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Mirrors: Art and Symbol, <em>The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (Nov. 16, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Feb. 9 - April 9, 1989); Museum of Fine Arts Boston (May 9 - July 9, 1989).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 102D Pre-Roman
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