Fragment Perseus Louvre CA937

Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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

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Photographer/Source Jastrow (2007)

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