Gem Impression

53-5-136

From: Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 53-5-136
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy | Florence (Italy) | Naples | Rome (Italy)
Date Made 19th century
Section Mediterranean
Materials Plaster
Iconography Minerva | Titan | Medusa
Description

Minerva having shown Pallas the head of Medusa, he was immediately turned to stone. Demastor, the companion of Pallas, and fierce as he, raised him from earth and hurled him at the gods.

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, 1953

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