Medusa Rondanini. Marble copy of the Roman Imperial period after a Greek original by Phidias from 440 BC on display in the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The head of Medusa Gorgon was placed on the shield of the colossal cult statue of Athena in the Parthenon, Athens.

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