"The sculptured plaques and the sphinx of this Hall were found in the harbour of Piraeus in the winter of 1930-31. They were part of the cargo of a wrecked ship, the destination of which had been Italy. Apart from the Sphinx, all the rest derive from the same ancient Attic workshop and they were executed around the middle of the second century A.D. The sculptured plaques were intended for decoration of various buildings in Rome, where actually another plaque, deriving from the same workshop, has already been discovered. The repetition of the themes represented in them indicates that they were objects of mass production.
The plaques exhibited in this Hall are distinguished in two categories; those reproducing a variety of themes, and the rest, most important from the archaeological aspect, that reproduce scenes of the Amazonomachy (Battle of the Amazons with the Greeks), as this was depicted on the shield of Athena Parthenos statue, which the great sculptor Pheidias had made for the Parthenon of the Acropolis of Athens." Textː Museum inscription.
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