Patera Support: Lasa
-300–-175
- Medium
- 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.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
etruscan
About
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).