Images

The "Amazon Sarcophagus", a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)

Detail of a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)

Roman bust of an Amazon carrying a sheathed sword and wearing an Eastern-style cap. Bronze. 1st Century CE. 14.5 cm (5.7 in) in height. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Fragment of a Roman mosaic depicting two Amazons. Early 3rd century CE, from the House of Ostriches in Sousse, Tunisia. (Archeological Museum of Sousse)

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.

Red-figure case painting depicting an "Amazonomachy," a battle between between Greeks and Amazon warriors. Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs. Made in Attica, c. 450 BCE. Height: 63.5 cm (25 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Fragment of an Apulian vase painting depicting Hercules with the Amazonian queen Hippolyte. Terracotta volute-krater attributed to the Baltimore Painter. c. 330–310 BCE. 19.4 cm (7.5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Cathedral of Santa Caterina in Goa, India. Built in the first half of the 17th century when the city was part of Portuguese Goa.

A c. 1750 map of Portuguese Goa in India, capital of the Estado da India or Portuguese empire in the East.

A 16th-century portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque who established the colony of Portuguese Goa in India and who served as the Viceroy of the Estado da India from 1509 to 1515. (National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon)