Amazone zu Pferde (Tuaillon)

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Amazone zu Pferde
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The statue in 2006
Amazone zu Pferde (Tuaillon)
Artist Louis Tuaillon
Year1895 (1895)
Location Berlin, Germany
Coordinates 52°30′53″N13°22′09″E / 52.51468°N 13.36914°E / 52.51468; 13.36914 Coordinates: 52°30′53″N13°22′09″E / 52.51468°N 13.36914°E / 52.51468; 13.36914

Amazone zu Pferde ("Amazon on horseback") is an outdoor 1895 bronze equestrian statue by Prussian sculptor Louis Tuaillon, installed in Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. The name of the artwork refers to the Amazon warriors, a nation of "all women" warriors of Iranian origin (related to Scythians and Sarmatians), who inhabited the regions around the Black Sea and Eurasian steppes from the 2nd millennium BC, until the start of the Early Middle Ages. [1] [2]

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  1. "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World", p. 41, Adrienne Mayor
  2. "Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism", p. 106, Neal Ascherson