Bronze handle of a patera
Greek, South Italian or Etruscan
Not on view
Bronze shallow bowls, or paterae, with figural handles were produced in Greece as well as southern Italy in the late 6th through the middle of the fifth century B.C. and were used for offerings and libations. This finely worked handle takes the form of a nude youth with two rams and a ram’s head as part of the attachment to the patera.
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