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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Amazonomachy

Typically a symbol of the war of sexes. One may suppose that whoever is buried in this sarcophagus was killed in that war.

(On the photo: Amazonomachy, marble sarcophagus at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.)
Posted by Dimitri Vorontzov at 3:54 PM
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