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P23.15 GORGONS

Image | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre E857
Beazley Archive No. 310026
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to the Oll Group or Tyrrhenian Group
Date ca 570 - 550 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

A pair of wide-striding Gorgons pursue the hero Perseus. The monsters are depicted as winged women with broad, cauldron-shaped heads crowned with four, rearing snake-heads. Their facial features include large, staring eyes, broad, flaring nostrils, and wide, toothy, grinning mouths.

ARTICLES

Gorgons