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P23.13 GORGONS

Gorgons | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Catalogue No. Athens CC657
Beazley Archive No. 300025
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to Nettos Painter
Date ca 550 - 520 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Sides: A pair of Gorgons stride through the air. They monsters are depicted as winged woman with round heads, large, staring eyes, flaring nostrils, wide, toothy grins, lolling tongues and thick beards.
Neck: Heracles and the centaur Nessus (see other image).

ARTICLES

Gorgons

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Heracles & Nessus

O14.3 Nessus