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SCYTHIAN AMAZON - Oil on gilded wood panel
This painting depicts an "Amazon" warrior and is based on objects and remains excavated in Russia between the Caspian Sea and the Stone Belt Mountains in Asia.
		About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian "warrior graves" on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons. Up to 25% of military burials there were of armed Sarmatian women usually including bows, arrows, bronze-hilted swords, scaled body armor and woven rattan shields. The Amazon's facial features are based on the basic physiognomy of the present-day inhabitants of that area of Russia. The battered bronze Corinthian helm is a nod to the mythical raid of the Amazons on Athens which was supposed to have occurred about 700 b.Chr.

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SCYTHIAN AMAZON - Oil on gilded wood panel
This painting depicts an "Amazon" warrior and is based on objects and remains excavated in Russia between the Caspian Sea and the Stone Belt Mountains in Asia.
About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian "warrior graves" on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons. Up to 25% of military burials there were of armed Sarmatian women usually including bows, arrows, bronze-hilted swords, scaled body armor and woven rattan shields. The Amazon's facial features are based on the basic physiognomy of the present-day inhabitants of that area of Russia. The battered bronze Corinthian helm is a nod to the mythical raid of the Amazons on Athens which was supposed to have occurred about 700 b.Chr.

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