Amazon on Horseback from Epidauros

From the west pediment of the Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros. Though small, the temple had elaborately decorated pediments featuring scenes of Amazons fighting Greeks and the sack of Troy

Number

223

Material

Marble

Location of Original

Athens National Museum 136

Size

0.80m

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 220
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), 276, fig.716
Picard: Archéologie Grècque; Sculpture III (1948), 346, fig.121
Lawrence: Classical Sculpture (1928), 240, pl. 76b
Papaspiridi: Guide du Musée Nationale d'Athènes (1927), 60
Tomlinson: Epidauros, 59

Date

380-370 BCE

Sculptor

Timotheos (?)

Provenance

Excavated from the site between 1882 and 1884

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