| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 3770 | |
| Title: | GORGONEION | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 3770 | |
| Description: | Small Gorgoneion, separately worked with edges finished with point, perhaps for either insertion into another piece, or projection from another element. Face flat, hair tied by a fillet, with hair partly overlapping it and drawn back in wavy locks; wavy locks frame face. Features crudely worked: small horizontal eyes cut back from surface with closely set lids; flat nose thickening at base with broad wrinkle. | |
| Mythology: | Gorgoneion | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving face from top head to base of nose; finished all around except below and back. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.108 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.070 Depth00.041 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early Roman | |
| Area: | Temple E | |
| Context: | Temple E, From Kosmopoulos trench, possibly south of Temple | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E Basket: Temple E, From Kosmopoulos trench, possibly south of Temple |
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