Cameo glass disk with Medusa head
Unknown Artist
Translucent deep purple with opaque white overlay.
Circular disk, with beveled edge; flat back.
On front, in deep relief in white, head of Medusa in three-quarter view to right, with wings and serpents in her hair.
Broken and chipped at top and bottom; dulling and faint iridescent weathering.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
1st century A.D.
Glass; cast and cut
2.2 x 2.5 cm
17.194.11
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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