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Artist/Maker Unknown
Perseus (wearing a hat and the kibisis slung over his shoulder) averts his gaze as he kills Medusa. Fragment of an orientalizing relief pithos. Terracotta with stamped and cut decoration, Cycladic artwork, ca. 670 BC. From Thebes, Boeotia.
Dimensions n.a.
Credit line Purchase, 1898
Accession number CA 937
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon, lower ground floor, room 1
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2007)
See also
See also : Greek Mythology. Paintings, Drawings
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