frieze

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Object Type
Museum number: 1865,1211.5
Title: Series: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; Series: The Amazon Frieze
Description: Part of a marble slab of the Amazon frieze of the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos. It represents combats between Greeks and Amazons. This slab fragment shows the part of the right forearm of an Amazon. It joins the right end of slab 1015. The rest of the figure survives on a slab, found in the walls of castle St. Peter at Bodrum, now in the museum at the site of the Mausoleum.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 350BC (circa)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mausoleum (Halicarnassus)
Materials
Curator's comments: This is incorporated into the slab 1857.12-20.268.
Bibliographic references
Location: On display (G21)
Subjects: amazon; amazonomachy
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1865
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1865,1211.5

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