Newly discovered Byzantine mosaics show Amazons hunting, a rare scene in Amazon iconography, which usually depicts the warriors fighting battles. Here Queen Melanippe (whose name is written above her) attacks a lion with her lance. (Pasquale Sorrentino)I rather like the goofy-looking horse. From an article about Byzantine mosaics in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Archaeology.
That horse looks like he's three sheets to the wind!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I laugh at the horse! How hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThat horse made my day:)
ReplyDeleteit's also quite funny that her name actually means "dark mare"
Somebody caption it pleeeeaaase
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