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P23.14 GORGON

Gorgon | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre F874
Beazley Archive No. 300055
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Dinos
Painter Name vase of the Gorgon Painter
Date ca 600 - 550 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Detail of a striding Gorgon from a painting depicting the three sisters. She is depicted as a winged woman with a cauldron-shaped head, hair wreathed in coiling serpents, staring eyes, flaring nostrils, and a wide, toothed mouth with lolling tongue.

ARTICLES

Gorgons