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| Keywords: Etruscan - Balsamarium in the Form of a Deity with Winged Helmet - Walters 543004.jpg This balsamarium could represent Turan the Etruscan goddess of love and fertility or one of the Lasas deities who guard graves The round full shapes of the face and the detailed rendering of the hair and eyes enhance the sculptural quality of the figure It possessed a lid now missing and could have been suspended by the two rings on the top of the head It was used on funerary or cult occasions and as a perfume container first half 3rd century BC bronze cm 10 8 accession number 54 3004 2045 Jacob Hirsch Sotheby's New York 1988 Herbert and Marilyn Scher Pikesville 1988 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Marilyn and Herbert Scher 2002 place of origin Italy Walters Art Museum license Etruscan art in the Walters Art Museum Etruscan religion Etruscan bronzes in the United States Turan dea Balsamaria | ||||
