P23.11 GORGON
 
      
      
      | Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris | 
|---|---|
| Catalogue No. | Paris N1020 or F230 | 
| Beazley Archive No. | 13996 | 
| Ware | Attic Black Figure | 
| Shape | Amphora, Neck | 
| Painter | - | 
| Date | ca 550 - 500 B.C. | 
| Period | Archaic | 
DESCRIPTION
The monstrous Gorgon is depicted as a muscular woman with two pairs of wings, a broad, circular face, staring eyes, wide mouth, lolling tongue, beard, and hair wreathed with coiling serpents.