He was the leading artist of the Gorgoneion Group. One of his plates is decorated with a "gorgoneion" covering the entire surface. She wears a helmet and holds a shield with the gorgoneion. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion. He wears a military cloak "(paludamentum)" and a cuirass ornamented with a gorgoneion. They have been named Aegis and Gorgoneion . One wears green leaves in her hair and long green garment ornamented with a Gorgoneion. On the cameo is a head of Medusa, technically referred to as a Gorgoneion. She defined the gorgoneion as a quintessentially European image. Archaic Greek depictions of the gorgoneion render it bearded, an anomaly in the female Gorgon. The Gorgoneion Group mainly decorated "kylikes" and kraters. On Attic kilns, the gorgoneion over the kiln door protected from mishaps. The Gorgoneion appears to have originated as an apotropaic symbol intended to ward off evil. The Gorgoneion Group was a group of Corinthian vase painters working in the black-figure technique.