Vessel stand with Gorgon head

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 7080

Category

Vessel attachment

Period

Archaic Period

Date

Around 500 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.1 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 19, Νο 14

Description
Bibliography

Vessel stand in the form of a lion foot standing on a sphere. The upper ending is shaped like a Gorgon head framed by two snakes. The Gorgon is depicted with protruding tongue, intense facial features and large ears. The tongue that sticks out may insinuate that Medusa is dead while the snakes that frame her head might be part of her hair.

This stand probably comes from a lebes or some other bowl-shaped vessel.

De Ridder, A., Bronzes Trouvés sur l' Acropole d'Athènes, Paris, 1896, σελ. 160-161, εικ. 119, αρ.κατ. 445
Fuchs, W., Floren, J., Die griechische Plastik, I: Die geometrische und archaische Plastik, München, 1987, σελ. 307 υποσημ. 63
Stibbe, C., The Sons of Hephaistos: Aspects of the Archaic Greek Bronze Industry, 2000, σελ. 154 υποσημ. 193
Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Αττικοί ανάγλυφοι πίνακες της Αρχαϊκής εποχής, Αθήνα, 2003, σελ. 62 υποσημ. 261
Tarditi, C., Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis: Style and Decoration in Athenian Production between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC, Thiasos Monografie 7, Roma, 2016, σελ. 40, 219, 313-314, αρ.κατ. 7080