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[Agora Object] P 3299: Red Figure Column Krater Fragment

From a krater? Black glaze inside. The representation is not clear. Probably, at the top, the thighs of a striding figure, with the edge of a short chiton. Below and at the right, the lower leg and sword ... 20 March 1934 ... For similar poses, see the Amazonomachy and Gigantomachy kraters, as Pfuhl (1923), fig. 510.

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[Agora Object] P 1566: Red Figure Amphora Fragment

From the shoulder of a large vase, unglazed inside. Along the upper edge of the fragment, a border of tongue pattern. A right hand places a wreathed Corinthian helmet on a trophy(?). In the field to the ... 20 March 1933 ... ADDENDA Large Amazonomachy, 450/40; tiara under helmet we know from the great Amazon in Bologna.

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[Agora Object] T 4417: Impression of Shield of Athena Parthenos

Single fragment, smoothed on back. Impression of upper third of Gorgoneion, with centrally parted hair in wavy horizontal lines framing double-creased forehead and one eyebrow of Medusa. Around head spirals ... 30 July 1996 ... Leipen, Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (Ontario 1971) 41-46 for discussion of both the amazonomachy on the shield of the Athena Parthenos and its surviving copies.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 320

Wall fragment with part of rim. Reserved line on inside at junction of rim. Max. dim. 0.13. Warrior (feet missing), nude but for his helmet, attacks to left, his spear in his slightly raised right hand, ... Ca. 440-430 B.C ... During his visit to the Agora in 1950, Bothmer suggested that the subject of 320 was an Amazonomachy, the Greek fighting a mounted Amazon, but he did not include 320 in his monograph, presumably because nothing of the Amazon remains.