- Museum number
- 1867,0508.1048
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria.
Gorgoneion within a circle, which has been incised in the moist clay and left red. Around this twenty-eight spiral-form snakes are drawn, half facing each way. The Gorgon has two protruding tusks above and below, and protruding tongue; the hair is in black silhouette, with the lower edge waved, and she wears circular earrings. The black of the hair is continued all round, forming a frame for the face.
Severe style. Purple tongue, white teeth; brown for slight shading on the lips, for the interstices between the teeth, the wrinkles, the eyelashes, and a circle dividing the pupil of the eye from the outline of the eyeball.
- Production date
- 490BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15.24 centimetres (of tondo)
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Height: 41.91 centimetres
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Height: 411 millimetres
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Weight: 3.50 kilograms (approx)
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Width: 395 millimetres
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Depth: 320 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Musée Blacas, pl. x, p. 31; Müller-Wieseler, Denkm. d. a. Kunst, ii, pl. 72, no. 906; Levezow, Gorgonen-Ideal, pl. ii, fig. 21, p. 189.
- Location
- On display (G69/dc31)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997 13 Oct-1998 5 Jan, India, New Delhi, National Museum, The Enduring Image
1998 9 Feb-3 May, India, Mumbai, Sir Caswasjee Jahangir Hall, The Enduring Image
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011 15 Oct-07 Feb, Taipei, The National Palace Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011, 11 Mar-12 Jun, Kobe City Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011, 4 July-25 Sept, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011-2012, 25 Oct-12 Feb, Mexico City, National Anthropological Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2012-2013 6 Oct-6 Jan, Portland Art Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2013, 6 May–6 Oct, Dallas Museum of Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 21 Feb-9 Jun, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 2 Aug–9 Nov, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, The Body Beautiful in Greek Art and Thought
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art
- Condition
- The black glaze forming the surface of the hair has either accidentally cracked or been scored with a sharp point in such a way as to suggest the appearance of hair; the general direction is that of radiation from the common centre. These cracks do not occur on the black surface below the ears, but this may be a mere coincidence.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.1048
