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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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848 The aigts and Gorgd7ieion of Athena

Be that as it may, the Gorgon's head, thanks to the humanising
tendency of Greek art, had an evolution of its own from lower to
higher forms1. The archaic type (fig. 662)2 was a round face with
formal curls and a wrinkled forehead. The mouth was wide, show-
ing teeth and formidable tusks. The tongue was protruded. The
ears often had circular earrings. Snakes were sometimes added, or
even a beard.

Fig. 662. ' Fig. 663.

(Lanzone op. cit. p. 208 pi. 75, 5 limestone statue at Turin). I figure two amuletsi^
my collection, to illustrate the resemblance of Bes to a negro. Fig- 660, 0, ^ IS jj;
Egyptian plaque of schist (?) with the head of Bes on one side, the name of ThothmeS
and two adorants on the other (cp. Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie Amulets London 19,,
p. 41 no. 190 n pi. 34). Fig. 661, a, b is a cornelian bead of the 'Middle M'n.oan,inCi
period, from the Messara in southern Crete, with the head of a negro on one si<le <^
two crossed lines on the other. Both amulets have a markedly wrinkled forehea
eyes sunk in, or sketched over, a transverse slit. jjer

1 See the succession of types drawn up and discussed by A. Furtvvaiigler in x ,^
Lex. Myth. i. 1709—1718 ('Archaischer Typus'), 1718—1721 ('Der mittlere TjP ..
1911—1927 ('Der schone Typus'), G. Glotz in Daremberg—Saglio Diet- ^
1622—1624 ('type archaique'), 1624—1627 ('Le type moyen'), 1627—1629 ( s'j,
beau'), K. Ziegler in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vii. 1652 f. ('Der archaische

'^53 f. ('Der mittlere Typus'), 1654 f. (' Der schone Typus'). cnin15'

2 An antefix of terracotta found on the Akropolis at Athens. Lips, ion^^e°\,a^-
and earrings are painted dark-red; hair, snakes, and pupils of eyes, black, a '. B c.
Seven fragments from a single mould survive, and date from the second half o s- ^y
(L. Ross Arcliaologische Aufsatze Leipzig 1855 i. 109 pi. 8, i in colours (=rny ^ jn the
2 side view, A. Furtwiingler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1715 with fig-, D- Broo
Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum Cambridge 1921 ii. 289 f. nos. 78- 79 fig-' 322be"dated
The bronze Gorg&neion of Dreros, which anticipates the milder type, way

c. 600—575 B-c- (S. Marinatos in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1936 lx. 270 ff. pi- 29r
 
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