The Medusa Rondanini displayed in the same room as the Drunken Satyr is the best surviving Roman marble copy of the Medusa intended for the center of the bronze shield of an 11-m tall Athena in the Parthenon on the Acropolis. It hangs at the same height that the original would have faced visitors.
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