Plate with a Gorgoneion

ca. 600 BCE (Early Archaic)

32.5 cm 4.2 cm

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Rendered in black pigment at the center of this yellow clay plate is the severed head of the gorgon Medusa, a motif referred to as the gorgoneion, with her large staring eyes, grimacing mouth, thick protruding tongue, and six hissing snakes emerging from her hair. She is enci...

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Moise Emmanuelides, Athens [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1927, by purchase [inv. no. P4326]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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