Relief slab from a frieze
Relief slab from a frieze
Published 2018-02-12T16:18:58+00:00
Relief slab from a frieze depicting an Amazonomachy made of Pentelic marble and found in Athens. It was probably part of the frieze of a funerary monument in the form of a naiskos. The relief depicts two Amazons, with full military equipment, fighting a nude Greek warrior.
Attributed to the school of Bryaxix or Timotheos.
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Date published | 12/02/2018 |
Complexity | Easy |
Title | Relief slab from a frieze |
Date | About the middle of the 4th c. BC |
Accession | 3614 |
Medium | Pentelic marble |
Credit | National Archaeological Museum of Athens |
Record | http://www.namuseum.gr/wellcome-en.html |
Place | National Archaeological Museum of Athens |