Not all Gorgons are Greek. A red-figure kylix fragment in the collectionof the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The unpublished kylix fragment with an unusual depiction of the head of a Gorgon in its tondo is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. According to the muse- um’s records, the kylix was originally part of the painter Antal Haan’s collection. A thorough study of the published and unpublished surveys of the collection showed that the kylix cannot be identified with any of the described objects; thus, it may not have originally been part of the Haan collection. Through careful examination of the fragment, it was possible to identify the traces of post-antique alteration on its surface. The uncommon Gorgoneion was most probably added to the original Attic black glazed vase in the 19th century. The lack of information does not allow for a definitive conclusion regarding the precise place and time of the alteration, but the necessary know-how and the possibilities of the Békés County Museum in the decades preceding WW II, as well as the similarities with another altered was in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, suggest that the Gorgoneion was added in Italy.