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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 .
The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain . Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site.
According to Apollodorus, after Perseus gave the Gorgon head to Athena, she "inserted the Gorgon's head in the middle of her shield", [25] apparently a reference to Athena's aegis. In the Iliad , the aegis is a device, usually associated with Athena , which was decorated with a Gorgon head. [ 26 ]
Gilt bronze head from the cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Temple at Bath, found in Stall Street in 1727 and now displayed at the Roman Baths (Bath). In the localised Celtic polytheism practised in Great Britain, Sulis [ note 1 ] was a deity worshiped at the thermal spring of Bath .
Medusa reflected in Perseus's shield, from The Gorgon's Head (1925) The myth of Perseus and Medusa was adapted into a 1925 silent short film titled The Gorgon's Head. In 2020, The Gorgon's Head is among the films uploaded on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's official YouTube channel to celebrate the exhibition's 150th anniversary. [12]
The Roman Baths themselves, though some lie below 18th century stonework. Of particular note is the original Roman Great Bath still lead-lined and fed by the sacred spring through Roman lead pipes. A hoard of 30,000 silver coins, one of the largest discovered in Britain, was unearthed in an archaeological dig in 2012.
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The "Rondanini Medusa", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1798–1801) Medusa (oil on canvas) by Leonardo da Vinci; Perseus with the Head of Medusa (bronze sculpture) by Benvenuto Cellini (1554)