Detail of Lekythos with Amazonomachy (Illustration)

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 11 June 2021

Detail of Lekythos with Amazonomachy — Bottom register of a red-figure lekythos. This scene depicts the Greeks, led by Theseus, engaged in combat with the Amazons led by Queen Hippolyte. Attributed to the Eretria Painter, c. 420 BCE. Attica. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Art, M. M. o. (2021, June 11). Detail of Lekythos with Amazonomachy. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14229/detail-of-lekythos-with-amazonomachy/

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