P23.11 GORGON
Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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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.