Figurine of a body of a horse with headless rider
Details
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Title
Figurine of a body of a horse with headless rider
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Associated place
Kish (surface, X344) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (width)
7 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Oxford Field Museum Expedition, 1968.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1968.390
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; buff core, cream slip; front of head, legs and rump missing, riding clasping back of horses neck.
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), 213, p.143, illus. p.143
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