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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 .
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.
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.
The central head has also variously been interpreted as the image of a water god such as Oceanus, [36] or a local Celtic god of the sun. [15] Besides the Gorgon head, the pediment's artistic motif has more recently also been compared to the Jupiter-Ammon clipei found throughout Roman fora and which sometimes depicted local river gods in Celtic ...
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 ]
A Gorgon is used as a boss fight in the 2016 game Enter the Gungeon, in the game's second level. The boss is named the Gorgun to fit with the game's style of everything being gun related. In the 2020 video game Hades, it is implied that Dusa, the disembodied Gorgon head serving as the maid for the House of Hades, was Medusa before being ...
Bath Abbey from the Roman Baths Gallery. Bath Abbey was founded in 1499 [6] on the site of an 8th-century church. [7] The original Anglo-Saxon church was pulled down after 1066, [21] and a grand cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was begun on the site by John of Tours, Bishop of Bath and Wells, around 1090; [22] [23] however, only the ambulatory was complete when he died in ...
Astrocladus euryale, the basket star, or gorgon's head is a brittlestar of the family Gorgonocephalidae found in the coastal waters of South Africa from the west coast of the Cape Peninsula to about Algoa Bay.