IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 59604 accession number: E.GA.5989.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59604 TECHNIQUES ---------- moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: ornamental element DATING ------ creation date: 5001 - 100 creation date earliest: 5001 creation date latest: 100 DIMENSIONS ---------- 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