Actually, that people were apparently a Scythian people so she may have been the user.
The Scythians, one should remember, were the same bunch that, according to Herodotus, were seen as fit companions by refugee “Amazons” after their loss at the battle of Thermodon.
The people that came from the resulting intermarriage were the Sauromatae, steppe nomads who supposedly would not let a girl wed till she’d killed a man in battle.
Now, Herodotus’ claims not downplayed, had there been the Amazons and had they subsequently intermarried with Scythians it might indicate that the latter already had to have had a more equal view of women before said intermarriage, making it more palatable to the Amazons.
All conjecture, of course, but it still remains true that other Scythian groups besides the one in question have been found to have such warrior-women burials.
“The Scythians, one should remember, were the same bunch that, according to Herodotus, were seen as fit companions by refugee “Amazons†after their loss at the battle of Thermodon.”
Sorry, but I regard that as mythology.
Women are simply not large and strong enough to function as a hoplite.