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Summary
Artist |
Unknown artist
Unknown artist
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Description |
English:
Amazonomachy
, detail:
Amazon
warrior armed with a
labrys
is seized by her
Phrygian cap
by a
hippeus
.
Roman mosaic
emblema (marble and limestone), 2nd half of the 4th century AD. From Daphne, a suburb of
Antioch on the Orontes
(modern
Antakya
in southern Turkey).
Français :
Amazonomachie, détail : un cavalier citoyen grec saisit par le bonnet phrygien une Amazone armée d'une labrys. Embléma à mosaïque romaine (marbre et calcaire), deuxième moitié du IVe siècle av. J.-C. Provenance : Daphné, faubourg d'Antioche-sur-l'Oronte (actuelle Antakya en Turquie).
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Dimensions | W. 1.54 m (60 ½ in.), full length 3.84 m (151 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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Current location |
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the
Louvre
,
Denon Wing
, ground floor, room 30.
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Accession number |
Ma 3457 (MND 1947)
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Credit line | From the excavation undertaken by the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University and the Louvre, 1934; entered the Louvre collections in 1936. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Marie-Lan Nguyen ( User:Jastrow ) (2007) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | Image:Orient méditerranéen de l'Empire romain - Mosaïque byzantine -5.JPG |
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