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NATURAL HISTORY 87
beginning to be felt. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Attic gorgon
closely resembles the Corinthian.
The gorgons on the Aegina bowl1 are lost, but we know what they were
like: they are preserved on the Nessos vase which is by the same artist.2
According to the chronology here adopted the Nessos vase belongs to the
late seventh century, and is therefore roughly contemporary with the early
Fig. 27. a-b, from nos. 1456,1410; c, from no. 1452; d, from no. 1389; e, from no. 1471.
Corinthian examples. In the Delos aryballos fig. 24 C we clearly have a form
which is analogous in essential respects to the Nessos type, but is less con-
strained in movement and very much better worked out in detail.3 From the
period between the Nessos vase and the Francois vase we have the gorgons of
the Louvre dinos, C.V.A. iii Hd pis. 14-17 (Buschor2 69 fig. 50; Pfuhl fig. 92),
which correspond broadly to the early sixth-century type seen in fig. 25 E.
A fragmentary gorgoneion on a plate by the same painter was evidently
1 A.Z. 1882, pis. 9, 10: Furtwangler, Kleine 3 This is especially clear in the treatment of the
Schriften ii, pis. 21, 22. mask. The proportion of head to body, however,
2 A.D. i, pi. 57; Beazley, Attic Black Figure, 11. is much the same, and the Nessos gorgons show
All but the lower part of the figure is lost also on the a similar exaggeration of some features of the
Leipzig fragment by the Nessos painter: (Rumpf) face.
A. Anz. 1923/4, 46 fig. 1.
beginning to be felt. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Attic gorgon
closely resembles the Corinthian.
The gorgons on the Aegina bowl1 are lost, but we know what they were
like: they are preserved on the Nessos vase which is by the same artist.2
According to the chronology here adopted the Nessos vase belongs to the
late seventh century, and is therefore roughly contemporary with the early
Fig. 27. a-b, from nos. 1456,1410; c, from no. 1452; d, from no. 1389; e, from no. 1471.
Corinthian examples. In the Delos aryballos fig. 24 C we clearly have a form
which is analogous in essential respects to the Nessos type, but is less con-
strained in movement and very much better worked out in detail.3 From the
period between the Nessos vase and the Francois vase we have the gorgons of
the Louvre dinos, C.V.A. iii Hd pis. 14-17 (Buschor2 69 fig. 50; Pfuhl fig. 92),
which correspond broadly to the early sixth-century type seen in fig. 25 E.
A fragmentary gorgoneion on a plate by the same painter was evidently
1 A.Z. 1882, pis. 9, 10: Furtwangler, Kleine 3 This is especially clear in the treatment of the
Schriften ii, pis. 21, 22. mask. The proportion of head to body, however,
2 A.D. i, pi. 57; Beazley, Attic Black Figure, 11. is much the same, and the Nessos gorgons show
All but the lower part of the figure is lost also on the a similar exaggeration of some features of the
Leipzig fragment by the Nessos painter: (Rumpf) face.
A. Anz. 1923/4, 46 fig. 1.