MEDOUSA #medousa #medusa
This is thought to be a roof tile and illustrates the strange ambiguity of Medusa half woman half monster with her elaborate curls and long thin braids carefully rendered eyebrows elegantly arched yet bulging eyes and tongue and fangs and an arch of sakes around her
My suspicions are that these images originated with Perseus bringing back some kind of statue or mask from North Africa or Egypt as a later part of one version of the story says he buried the head in or near Argos. If a very strange non Mycenaean art work ever gets exposed by a dig in that area in a strata with early helladic arttfacts ...
Watch for my next blog ... theres something I want to point out about her name and other names using the root of the medomai verb.
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