48" X 36" (121.9cm x 91.4cm),
acryl / gold leaf / canvas
2022
Amage was a Sarmatian queen.
According to the writings of Polyaenus, she was the wife of the Sarmatian king Medosacus she ruled as regent to a dissolute husband.
They were from the coast of the Euxine Sea.
Having observed that her husband was "totally given up to luxury", she took over the government, acting as a judge of causes, stationing garrisons, repulsing enemy invasions, and was such a successful leader that she became famous through all Scythia.