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Patera Support: Lasa
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About this 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).
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePatera Support: Lasa, 300–175 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze with silver inlays; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.68
