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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