The Untamed Women of Thrace

A white-haired old woman driving a chariot, one of three female racers
painted in the domed tomb at Kazanluk, Bulgaria.

 

A Thracian woman wearing Amazon-style leggings and sleeves runs
with a sword she has just drawn from its scabbard.

 

Animal-head rhyton with goddess cupping her uncovered breast

 

Golden vessel from the Panagyurishte hoard chased with multiple Gorgons,
spirals, and a row of swimming dolphins.

 

A line of caryatid goddesses wearing spiralled flowers from a tomb at Sveshtari, Bulgaria