IDENTIFIERS
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id:	59604
accession number:	E.GA.5989.1943

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: plaque, with face of gorgon, baring her fangs. Medusa was a figure of Greek mythology who could turn men to stone. Her face is usually shown as frontal and she was believed to ward off evil. She often appears in funerary contexts, particularly on the attachments that decorated coffins.
title:	plaque

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59604





TECHNIQUES
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moulded

CATEGORIES
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category: ornamental element

DATING
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creation date:	5001 - 100
creation date earliest:	5001
creation date latest:	100


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 0.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 4.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 4



IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_GA_5989_1943.jpg
height: 760 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_GA_5989_1943.jpg
height: 667 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_GA_5989_1943.jpg
height: 760 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_GA_5989_1943.jpg
height: 333 pixels
width: 250 pixels