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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4605494, member: 5833&quot;]Just spent some time searching several different sources, thinking this figure would readily turn up.&nbsp; Very surprised not to find it right off.&nbsp; When I have the time &amp; the patience, will have to delve more deeply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, it is a figure with a mask of Medusa on the head, which really limits it to one of two characters: Perseus or Minerva/Athena.&nbsp; Perseus because he killed Medusa; Athena because Perseus gave her the head, which she added to her armor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the snakes tied under the chin that confuse matters.&nbsp; This is Medusa herself.&nbsp; She is often depicted with snakes tied under her chin:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is Perseus, no snakes under chin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409391[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]409393[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Athena is sometimes portrayed with braids tied under chin that look a lot like snakes:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409395[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>However, gems that show her with a Medusa mask are frontal presentations, &amp; also no snakes under chin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409398[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, think my glass intaglio is a Perseus variant.&nbsp; Now I just have to find him.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Of the cameos illustrating this post, only the hardstone Perseus is mine, sad to say.][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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