Patera Support: Lasa (300–175 BCE): Art, History and Details

Patera Support: Lasa (300–175 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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).

Object facts

• Title: Patera Support: Lasa
• Date: 300–175 BCE
• Culture: Etruscan
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze with silver inlays
• Dimensions: 18.5 x 9 x 6.2 cm (7 5/16 x 3 9/16 x 2 7/16 in.); Overall: 21.6 x 16.5 x 6.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 2 9/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Etruscan
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1947.68

A detail from the museum

This elaborate figure served as a handle or support for a patera, a shallow dish.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
• Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Patera Handle." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947).
• Fasti Archeologici Vol. II (1947).

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