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    Perseus beheads Medusa
    Perseus beheads Medusa who already holds the winged horse Pegasus.
    Athena, without attributes, stands beside him.
    Limestone metope from Selinus.
    Height 1.47 m
    About 530 BCE
    Palermo, Museo Nazionale

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