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Amazon
1995-111
More Context
Special Exhibition
In blue leather boots with fuchsia skirts swirling behind them, this pair of attacking Amazons strides forward, one raising her arm to hold a missing war ax. Deep eyes, muscular legs, broad shoulders, and thick arms resonate with Greek depictions of Amazons, but the belted skirts and vivid colors are particularly characteristic of terracottas from Canosa in southern Italy.
Information
Object Number
1995-111
Medium
Terracotta
Dates
ca. 300–280 B.C.
Dimensions
22.5 x 8 x 12.6 cm
base: 7.7 x 14.6 cm. (3 1/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Culture
South Italian, Canosan
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Place Made
Europe, South Italy
Type
Purchased from Brian Aitken (Acanthus), New York, in 1995.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774759
"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1995," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 36-74., p. 64 (illus.), p. 67
3050 1997
