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The Bath Gorgon is a ruined pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva, [1] [2] in the Roman Baths in Bath in Somerset, England. The pediment features a Gorgon (or water god )'s head. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The figure has been identified as Oceanus , and is sometimes referred to as The Green Man , a Celtic mythological figure .
Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]
Gorgon blood was said to have both the power to heal and harm. Representations of full-bodied Gorgons and the Gorgon face, called a gorgoneion (pl. gorgoneia), were popular subjects in Ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman iconography. While Archaic Gorgons and gorgoneia are universally depicted as hideously ugly, over time they came to be ...
The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1982, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this. [ 9 ] Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts ; [ 10 ] the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis , who was locally ...
The statue was set up as the cult statue for the Temple of Aphrodite at Knidos. It depicted the goddess Aphrodite as she prepared for the ritual bath that restored her purity, discarding her drapery with one hand, while modestly shielding herself with the other. The placement of her hands obscures her pubic area, while simultaneously drawing ...
The Gorgon at Roman Baths Museum. Rediscovered from the 18th century onward, the city's Roman remains have become one of Bath's main attractions. They may be viewed almost exclusively at the Roman Baths Museum, which houses: Artefacts recovered from the Baths and the Roman town. There is a fine collection of stone sculptures.
Medusa's visage has since been adopted by many women as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a feminist journal called Women: A Journal of Liberation in their issue one, volume six for 1978. The cover featured the image of the Gorgon Medusa by Froggi Lupton, which the editors on the inside cover ...
Blot exhibited a cast in December 1905 alongside other Claudel works that Blot had cast in bronze, including her Entreaty in two sizes, Perseus and the Gorgon, Dream by the Fire, Fortune, Intimacy, The Old Woman, The Mermaid, The Waltz and The Gossips. Blot intended to make and sell dozens of copies, with a planned edition of 25 large casts (of ...