Votive Shield Portrait Medusa Great Greece Italy Terracotta Ancient Greek Art Woman Gorgon

Votive shield portrait of Medusa - Greater Greece, Italy Terracotta Ancient Greek art IIIs BC Gorgon Woman
Greek Art, early Hellenistic period, circa 3rd century BC

A rare votive shield in discoidal shaped terracotta, molded: the face in low relief of a stylized gorgon face, certainly Medusa, and the concave molded back.
The top is pierced with a pair of suspension or nailing holes.
The central gorgon head gives this votive object an apotropaic value, symbolically protecting the individual against bad luck and bad influences.

Diameter: 13cm
Height with base: 26cm

Good state of conservation, remains of white surround and polychromy

References : A stylistically similar example is kept in the Louvre, and another with the same iconography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A similar shield (pierced), smaller in size with the head of Alexander the Great, sold for €6,000 including fees at Christie's.

Former private collection sold at public auction.

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