Mosaic, Haleplibahce Mosaic Museum, Urfa, Turkey
Hunting Amazons mosaic, Byzantine, 5th - 6th century, with 5 Amazon queens including Hippolytus, Penthesileia, and Melanippe, hunting lions and tigers, from the Byzantine Amazon villa excavated 2006 at Haleplibahce, Urfa, in the Haleplibahce Mosaic Museum, part of Sanliurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museums, or Sanliurfa Museum, in Sanliurfa, or Urfa, the site of ancient Edessa, Turkey. The excavations of 2006-9 unearthed the Amazon villa, Geometric villa and a bathhouse. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
50384460
Media ID
50384460
Size
8268px x 5634px
(16.8MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
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