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| Keywords: Roman - Amazon - Walters 2392.jpg In mythology Amazons were mighty female warriors who fought against the Greeks These sensual but fierce women offered Classical sculptors the opportunity to depict the bared female breast This statue reproduces a famous Greek original depicting an Amazon wounded beneath her right breast It was one of several statues of Amazons entered in a sculptors' competition at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in western Asia Minor about 440 BC The sculptor of this entry is believed to have been Kresilas According to the ancient writer Pliny the contest was judged by the sculptors themselves and each voted for his own first and gave second place honors to a work by Polyclitus making him the winner Kresilas received third prize ca 440 BC Classical-Roman marble cm 157 48 53 34 55 88 ; Base cm 59 69 72 39 72 39 accession number 23 92 18806 Villa Borghese Sale 1893 p 59 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Mediterranean Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
