Cast Gallery catalogue number: A015

Athena supports the hero Perseus as he cuts off the head of Gorgo who clasps her child, the winged horse Pegasos, to her side. The others look away to avoid Gorgo's petrifying glance.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.22m.
• Copy of a limestone metope.
• The metope:
  • is from Temple C at Selinus in Sicily.
  • was made about 520-510 BC.
  • was found at Selinus in 1823 by William Harris and Samuel Angell.
  • is now in Palermo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

A 015
Perseus and Medusa; Selinus metope

Marble
Metope
Italy, Palermo, Palermo MN