The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus / The Amazon Frieze 4

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Human: Amazon frieze of Mausoleum at Halikarnassos features a marble slab depicting battles between Greeks and Amazons. This slab showcases four figures - three Greeks and an Amazon - along with a horse and a figure carved across the join of two slabs (1020, 1021). On the left, a Greek youth throws a spear at a retreating mounted Amazon. The Greek seen from behind, nude apart from a chlamys wrapped around his arm, hurls a spear to the left at a mounted Amazon. Only the tail and hind legs of her horse remain; the rest is carved on an adjacent slab (slab missing). To the right, an Amazon and Greek engage in combat over a crouching Greek. The Amazon, facing right, may have held a weapon in her right hand to strike. A Greek falls on his right knee, shielding himself with his shield. His companion strides to the left, holding out his shield to protect him while raising his sword to strike at the Amazon, whose hilt is decorated with a horse's head. The fallen Greek wears a Corinthian helmet without crest, while his companion sports an Attic helmet with for-and-aft crest and long horsehair plume. At the far right, an Amazon aims a spear to the right from the slab join, leaning back to launch it with her right hand; her left arm stretches out to the right with feline skin hanging from it. She wears a tall helmet with crest, chiton belted at the waist leaving her right side bare, and boots. Metal attachments or paint may have adorned the weapons; traces of paint remain. Slab 1020 is part of a sequence that continues on slab 1021.