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P23.1B GORGON MEDUSA

Gorgon Medusa | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich 2312
Beazley Archive No. 201820
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora, Panathenaic
Painter Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Date ca. 490 B.C.
Period Late Archaic / Early Classical

DESCRIPTION

The striding Gorgon Medusa is depicted as a winged woman with a round face, wide mouth, tusks, protruding tongue, staring eyes, and hair wreathed in coiling serpents.

ARTICLES

Medusa

OTHER IMAGES

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