Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Fabric Category	Bucchero
Object Type	Vessel
Motif	Gorgon Tongue
Decorative Technique	Incised Molded Relief
Vessel Form	Form unspecified
Fragment Noted	false
Object Type (notes)	Bucchero Gorgoneion Attachment
Size
Condition	Broken on several sides - preserves almost entire attachment, broken from vessel; surface well preserved; slight scratches on gorgoneion.
Description	Fragment preserves decorative protome-like attachment from some heavy vessel, such as focolare, with thick rim rounded on one side and forming the body of the vessel on the other, both sides terminating in a thick, molded gorgon protome. Gorgoneion is roughly square in shape with rounded top attached to rim fragment at approximately level of mouth, with an almost flat, smooth back surface and rougher triangular bottom areas under the tresses of hair. Front side has round relief face set in quare frame of hair; hair is arranged in curls at top, possibly parted by a thin incision, and curls are flattened and depressed at eye level to merge into side locks, three long, straight locks extending to end of relief area, and one shorter, wavy lock set between jaw and bottom edge, for each side of face. Face is round, molded in slightly higher relief on the left side; forehead is lower, triangular area above V-shaped flat ridge of brows; brows deepen into nose, a smooth triangular area thickest at tip, with only roughly indented nostrils; eyes are raised almond-shapes with flat, bottom edges, one raised ridge for upper lid, and large almond-shape for eye - left eye has shallow groove marking pupil, but this is not visible on right, shallower eye; mouth is lunate shape outlined by single groove with two fangs, both upper and lower, set on either side of nose and projecting above and below lips; upper lip is thicker area with shallow traces of at least three teeth projecting into mouth; tongue is raised semi-circle projecting from lower lip to bottom of chin.
Fabric Description	Bucchero; hard glossy finish on gray-black clay.
Has note	The Poggio Civitate Excavation Project website originally included this object at this address: http://www.poggiocivitate.org/catalog/viewartifactcatalog.asp?fid=PC1971005100