File:Apollo Sosianus pediment - Amazon on horseback A (MC 3292) 01.jpg

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Figure of an Amazon on horseback, from the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Sosianus in Rome. (The head of the horse is a modern restoration, apart from the top of the head and the tip of the muzzle.)
Date Greek, second half of the 5th century B.C.; reused in the Temple of Apollo in the late 1st century B.C.
Medium marble
Dimensions height: 96 cm (37.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96U174728
institution QS:P195,Q333906
institution QS:P195,Q1054090
Current location
Centrale Montemartini, Sala Macchine
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MC 3292 (body of horse and legs of Amazon), 3453 (torso of Amazon), 3465 (top of horse's head), 3464 (tip of horse's muzzle)
Place of discovery Rome
References
  • E. La Rocca, Amazzonomachia: Le sculture frontonali del tempio di Apollo Sosiano (Rome 1985), pp. pp. 37–39, no. VIII
  • iDAI Arachne 1094896
Source/Photographer Mark Landon (2009)
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