Cleveland Museum of Art

Patera Support: Lasa

Date

300–175 BCE

Medium

bronze with silver inlays

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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