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two Greek warriors playing a board game with big shields behind them showing the face of the Gorgoneion
The Gorgoneion, the precursor to the Gorgon, was a symbol used on weapons. It was hairy with fangs and screeched.
The gender was female in the written texts, but as you can see here it looks neuter or masculine. from my new book Monstrous Women.
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Went all-out nerd today and took my #gorgon mask to the #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt to meet its inspiration.
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Terracotta antefex with depiction of Gorgoneion. Wide face, tongue sticking out, large staring eyes, curly hair, large earrings and a headpiece. Typical Archaic representation of a gorgon from Greek mythology. Gorgons and Medusa often seen as apotropaic figures.
Been exploring Gorgoneion/apotropaic imagery during the Archaic and Classical period. Here's a fun example of a typical Archiac depiction of a gorgon. A terracotta antefex c.490 BC from the British Museum 1899.0178.2
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My pen and ink drawing of
Medusa 's head, symbolizes protection, power, and the ability of #Athena to turn enemies to stone. #dragons #Medusa #worldtok #globaltok #eurotok #bostontok
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GORGONEION, C. 200 CE. PALAZZO CENCI BOLOGNETTI In about 1575, the local magnate Cristoforo Cenci rebuilt his family palazzo atop the ruins of ancient buildings forming a small steep hill in the southern Campus Martius. Though the family had been living on this site since at least 1252, the date of a Cenci buying a tower here which still exists behind the stucco rustication, Cristoforo knew that a little display of spolia would push the family pedigree back into antiquity. He set up two funerary altars to ancient members of the gens Cincia on the façade of the family church across the piazza from this doorway. The portone, once the main door of the palazzo, was ornamented with a Medusa head, a Gorgoneion, staring out down the via Monte de' Cenci toward the recently-enclosed Jewish ghetto.
#SpoliaSunday shows a rather anguished-looking #Gorgoneion atop the portal of #palazzoCenci in #Rome, part of the propaganda effort of Cristoforo #Cenci to convince the #Romans that his family had always been powerful in the city.
🪷 #Hadrian loved all things Greek, especially #Antinous. The Emperor snuggles with #Antinoos and reads him a bedtime story by the light of a hanging terracotta #gorgoneion lamp. Good night in Greek is "Καληνύχτα" (Kalinixta). Art by scribl1ta.carrd.co 🪷
gorgon signet top view
gorgon signet side view
Signet-style silver ring with a round coin-like copper Gorgon face, a tapered domed band and a flat round top.
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gorgoneion prayer beads
gorgoneion prayer beads
Prayer beads featuring my signature Gorgoneion protection talisman cast in bronze and strung on bronze wire with jet and tiger iron beads and bronze rattlesnake vertebrae and a bronze sword.
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