Gorgoneion relief, Solunto Museum, Solunto, Sicily, Italy
Stone carved high relief with a Gorgoneion, an apotropaic amulet showing the Gorgon head, in the Solunto Museum at the archaeological site of Solunto, in Sicily, Italy. Athena and Zeus wore the gorgoneion as a protective pendant to ward off evil spirits. The Phoenician village of Solunto was expanded by the Greeks after 396 BC and again by the Romans after 254 BC. It was abandoned soon after and rediscovered by archaeologists in the 16th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13438379
Media ID
45121118
Size
7087px x 4970px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
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