Horse-and-rider figurine
Details
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Title
Horse-and-rider figurine
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Associated place
Turkey (find spot) -
Date
1150 BC - 350 BC
Iron Age (Near East) (1200 - 550 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 cm (height)
5.2 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Leonard Woolley and T.E. Lawrence, 1914.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1914.872
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff core, cream slip; repaired; the animal has slightly curved legs and a short tail curved round; the schematically modelled, legless rider is shown riding far forward grasping the animal's neck tightly with his arms; pinched nose and applied pellet eyes; pointed cap or helmet with prominent brow band decorated with three pellets. The horse is snub-nosed with an applied pellet on the end of the head; applied eyes and brow tuft; pointed ears (one damaged); and modelled mane in place before the rider was added; applied bands and disks across the lower neck and chest and bands on the upper forelegs.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 369, p.230, illus. p.230
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