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3614 : Relief slab from a frieze depicting an Amazonomachy.
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Pentelic marble. Found in Athens. 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 Bryaxis or Timotheos.
About the middle of the 4th cent. B.C.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Ancient Greece
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