Women riders

[Carvettia]

Herodotus (4.110-117), claims the sarmatians were the result of marriage between a band of Scythians and Amazons. Weapons are found in many sarmatian female graves on the Volga and Southren Urals from 6th to 4th century BC, and specially the 4th and 3rd centuries. So, this myth has an archaeological support...

You're right, but that doesn't help the originator of this thread who was asking about the permitted behaviour of noblewomen in Rome itself.