Ludovisi Medusa or Fury

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This sculpture has been interpreted at various times as a Sleeping Fury or a Medusa. In the Cesi Collection it had been identified as a water nymph and placed on a marble cushion. When it entered the Ludovisi Collection, the left side of the face was cut horizontally to improve the stability of the piece. The head, probably part of a large high-relief, is now believed to be a 3nd-century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work, perhaps a wounded Amazon. This deep relief shows a wild-haired woman in profile with her eyes closed. But is the woman asleep or dead? There was a theory that it is a fragment of a dead giant from the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon. Geological analysis of the marble has now shown this to be impossible

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