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P23.11 GORGON

Gorgon | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
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.

ARTICLES

Gorgons