The Amazons wear Phrygian caps, short chitones over long sleeved catsuits decorated with spots and stripes, and are armed with spears, double-axes and peltae emblazoned with facing female heads. Below and to the right of the temple, four Amazons fight two Greek warriors on foot and on horseback. The goddess Athena, wearing a diadem and aegis and carrying a shield and spear, watches from top left. The Greek warriors each wear a muscle cuirass over a short tunic, a chlamys (cloak), and a pair of greaves Menelaos wears a plumed Corinthian helmet, and Ajax a plumed Phrygian helmet. Both women wear elaborately embroidered chitones (dresses) and heavy jewellery. To the right, Cassandra clings to the statue’s legs and shield as Ajax, son of Oileus, pulls her backwards by her hair. Helen rushes towards the statue from the left, looking back at a bearded Menelaos who pursues her with sword drawn. At the center of the main register, a white-painted shrine with pediment and palmette akroteria contains the Palladion, the cult-statue of Athena, shown helmeted and armed with spear and shield.
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