3-095-541 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer: Paul Highnam"/Heritage Images

Cast of patera (libation bowl) with Medusa head from frieze, late 18th or early 19th century. Head of Medusa in the centre of a bowl decorated with acanthus leaves. Plaster cast of the patera from the frieze on the north side of the Temple of the Divine Vespasian (Temple of Vespasian and Titus) in Rome, begun by Titus in 79 AD/CE after Vespasian's death.