Headless and legless horse figurine with headless rider
Details
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Title
Headless and legless horse figurine with headless rider
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Associated place
Barguthiat, Tell (K.2222, cutting 4) (place of excavation) -
Date
Neo-Babylonian (c. 626 - c. 539 BC)
Kassite Period (1600 - 1155 BC)
Middle Assyrian Period (1350 - 1050 BC)
Neo-Assyrian (c. 911 - 612 BC)
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with greenish-blue glaze and traces of bitumen
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Object type
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Dimensions
6 cm (height)
7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1933.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1933.1352
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; buff core faded greenish-blue overall glaze; bitumen over broken left foreleg.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
glaze
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 216, p.144, illus. p.144
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