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Attic Red-Figure: Archaic and Later. Amazonomachies, without Herakles.
71,1 no22 p.143 Hydriai, the picture on the shoulder. New York 10.210.19.
"Here a nude Greek has just inflicted a second wound on the thigh of an Amazon who is falling backward half-supported by her bow. The Amazon wears a belted chiton and a pointed cap. We note a disk-shaped ear-ring in her left ear. Her eye shows that she is dying, much blood gushes forth from her wounds below the right breast and on the right thigh. With her right arm she seems to plead for mercy; the palm of her hand is turned up, and her mouth is open. She must have been kneeling on her left knee before she was wounded; now she has lost her balance and her right leg is stretched out. The artist has drawn her much taller than the Greek, but the discrepancy in scale is probably occasioned by the difficult foreshortening and novel pose."

Dietrich von Bothmer. 1957. Amazons in Greek Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press.