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1228: Medusa Ludovisi or sleeping Erinye. 2C BC. Original in Museo Nazionale Rom. Copy at Antikmuseet, Lund.

"The majestic creature is asleep. There is holiness in the placid smoothness of the brow, holiness in the tightly shut eyes, holiness in the unconscious mouth through whose half-opened lips there flows in gentle alternation the breath of life. But this holiness we can call neither innocence nor salvation nor profundity of soul. These relaxed features speak of neither gaiety nor affliction, neither kindliness nor spite, but only of the divine abyss of sleep. Its timeless grandeur has been so compellingly embodied and the force of its being so manifestly represented that any thought of symbolism or sublimation becomes a desecration. We gaze into the bared depths of being and experience an encounter with the infinite and divine." (Walter F. Otto: The Homeric Gods - The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion).