: • 'Golden Oldie': Just stumbled across, recently, and took some time to slightly alter these photos of mine taken back in 2018 in Moscow, Russia [clearing noisy pockmarked museum backgrounds, mostly], alors voilà: . • "Fragment of a Frieze Depicting a Battle Scene, Amazonomachy-?" From the Taman Peninsula, Yubileynoye-1 settlement near Temryuk, Krasnodar Region, Russia. Bosporan, 2nd-half of the 4th BC. Limestone. [Excavations 1983-1990, Restored] . The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow @theartsmuseum . Curious, obviously unverifiable assumptions around this relief: • Some Russian-language studies [art historian Valery Klenov and subsequent essays] suggest the left corner figure represents Tirgatao, Maeotian warrior princess [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirgatao ]. • In which case the upside-down heads strapped to the saddle of a horse may belong to Metrodorus, the son of Bosporan king Satyros I. and possibly Sindian king Hekataios, Tirgatao's ex-husband [both defeated and, said, killed by Tirgatao]. • The Pushkin State Museum refers to the scene as to 'Amazonomachy', generally, not identifying the battle participants. . [TPSMFA pic & desc: https://pushkinmuseum.art/data/fonds/ancient_world/f/f_1570/index.php?lang=en] . TPSMFA | phs©MSP | 2018 5800X4500 600 I. & II. The photographed object is the property of The Pushkin Museum and subject to its copyright. All labels, descs and reconstruction pic ©TPSMFA | pushkinmuseum.art/index.php?lang=en [ no commercial use ] . . #moscow #pushkinmuseumoffinearts #pushkinmuseum #пушкинскиймузей #artmuseum #ancientsculpture #ancientart #frieze #relief #scythian #excavations #archaeology #ancienthistory #arthistory #museology #antiquity #mythology #ancient #oiorpata #tirgatao #amazonomachy #amazzonomachia #амазономахия #amazons #амазонки #amazzoni #sculpturephotography #museumphotography #archaeologyphotography #michaelsvetbird tpsmfa @theartsmuseum 2018 ©msp @michael_svetbird | sorry for the watermarks (at Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А.С. Пушкина) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWF5sUPIf2t/?utm_medium=tumblr