PLATE XXIV
Amazons in Battle
To the left of the centre of the picture an Amazon, wearing a turban-like helmet and mounted on a horse, thrusts with a lance at a fallen Greek warrior, behind whom one of his fellows battles with another Amazon attacking with an axe. Both of the warrior-women are clad in tight-fitting garments conspicuous by reason of their peculiar chequered and zigzag patterns. From a red-figured volute krater of the latter half of the fifth century b.c., in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (photograph). See pp. 85, 103-04.
