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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1957 Ακ 1

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Terracotta plaque

Period

Archaic Period

Date

580-570 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.105 m
Length: 0.2 m
Width: 0.007 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 6, No 179

Description
Bibliography

Plaque decorated on both sides in the black-figure technique. It was found in 1957 at the Sanctuary of the Nymphe in six fragments and was reassembled.

On one side it depicts two Gorgons with curly hair. They are running in the typical position where the head and torso are depicted frontally and the legs with the bended knees depicted in profile. They are clad in animal skins over short chitons and wear winged endromides. They are Medusa's sisters chasing Perseus who killed their sibling. The scene is defined by brownish-red bands on the horizontal, long sides of the plaque and tongue motifs on the vertical sides.

On the plaque’s other side the decoration consists of three horizontal bands depicting facing panthers and a fourth band with a panther between deer. The composition is completed by three palmettes. The holes on the plaque’s upper part were used for its suspension on a wall, tree or somewhere else.

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Daux, G., «Chronique de fouilles», Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 82, 1958, σελ. 660, 663, εικ. 9
Μηλιάδης, Ι., «Ανασκαφή νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Πρακτικά Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας του έτους 1957, τόμ. 113, 1962, σελ. 25-26, πίν. 2
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LIMC IV, Gorgo, Gorgones, σελ. 306, αρ. κατ. 237
Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes. Votive images in clay, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2104 Oxford, 2010, σελ. 36 και υποσημ. 339, 37, 43 υποσημ. 69, 110, αρ. κατ. 170
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 59-61, εικ. 61