Rider on double-headed horse with single body
On display
Details
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Title
Rider on double-headed horse with single body
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Associated place
Deve Huyuk I (find spot) -
Date
1150 BC - 350 BC
Iron Age (Near East) (1200 - 550 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, handmodelled, decorated with dotted triangles, and designed band
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.7 cm (height)
3.7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1913.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1913.671
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; pink core with cream slip; details in black paint: forepart of the horse decorated with bands and chevrons of stippled dots; forelegs modelled as a solid wedge with two points for hoofs; rear legs more realistic; long tail; applied pellet eyes, pointed ears and prominent forelock; long-legged rider set well forward with hands close to the base of the mane; modelling smudged on the lower left side, perhaps originally with an applied clay model gorytos (cf. no. 210). Applied pellet eye, pointed nose, beard and pointed cap or helmet.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Hüyük, near Carchemish, Salvaged by T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley in 1913: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Objects in Berlin, Cambridge, Liverpool, London and Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 87 (Oxford: B.A.R, 1980), 432
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 361, p.229, illus. p.229
