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Jones,<em> Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton,&nbsp;NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986)","citation":"Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones,<em> Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton,&nbsp;NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 25","date":1986,"id":1899,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/14244748"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-470,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"White-ground alabastron: Amazon","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1984-12","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<font size=\"3\"><p>Sold at the Summa Galleries, Inc., 18 September 1981, lot no. 7; purchased from Robert Haber, New York in 1984.</p></font>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Portrayals of Amazons, the legendarily fierce female warriors, are found throughout Greek art and myth. The swirling fuchsia skirts of the two brilliantly painted Amazon figurines, one of whom wields a now-missing axe against her opponent, emphasize the forward momentum of their attack. The warrior painted on the alabastron, a jar for perfumed oil, carries a shield while she brandishes an axe over a Greek soldier’s helmet. Because the Amazons were believed to have originally come from the east, they were frequently depicted in the traditional clothing of non-Greek peoples, such as the Scythians of central Asia or the Thracians of southeastern Europe. On the alabastron, the painter has borrowed from a variety of cultures to signal that the Amazon was not Greek. Her pants are patterned similarly to those worn by Scythians, and her shield is styled after Thracian examples.","remarks":"MED2_22-T3B-7_CLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing (group chat for y1984-12, 1995-110, 1995-111)"}],"datebegin":-480,"sortnumber":"1984   12y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:30:25.454018","objectid":32602,"dimensions":"h. 14.8 cm, diam. 3.5 cm (5 13/16 x 1 3/8 in.)","on_view":true}