Askos with Gorgoneion

Classification

askos ; relief decorated vessel

Culture

Daunian

Dimensions

height: 45.4 cm

Date

the end of the 4th – first half of the 3rd centuries B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

Medusa-head ; snake

Production place

Daunia

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts

Inventory

50.233

ID

Hyp-6630

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., CVA Hongrie 2, 122–123, pl. 49.1–3

Trails

After red-figure pottery