Amazon wearing an Attic helmet and full armor
29.
Lekythos fragment
Inscription Painter (Greek)
Amazon wearing an Attic helmet and full armor
Clay, white-ground,
450-430 BCE
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Photograph courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
1913.169
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