page_title: Women in ancient warfare
section_title: Timeline of women in ancient warfare worldwide
hierarchical_section_title: Women in ancient warfare / Timeline of women in ancient warfare worldwide
caption_attribution_description: Woodcut illustration (leaf [l]10v, f. c) of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia, hand-colored in red, green, yellow and black, from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johannes Zainer at Ulm ca. 1474 (cf. ISTC ib00720000). One of 76 woodcut illustrations (1 on leaf [e]8v dated 1473), each 80 x 110 mm., depicting scenes from the life of the women chronicled (for a full list of subjects, cf. W.L. Schreiber, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (Nendeln: Kraus Reprints, 1969), no. 3506). "Pour la première moitie le nom se trouve inscrit à côte de la tête de chaque femme, pour le reste il es ajouté entre les deux réglettes. Il n'y en a que trois, qui n'ont qu'un seul trait carré."--Schreiber. Established form: Zainer, Johannes, ‡d d. 1541?. Penn Libraries call number: Inc B-720 All images from this book Penn Libraries catalog record
context_page_description: The role of women in ancient warfare differed from culture to culture. While warriors have historically always been overwhelmingly male, there have been various historical accounts of females participating in battle.
  Contemporary archaeological research regularly provides better insight into the accuracy of ancient historical accounts.
caption: Chiomara
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