Equid figurine, pehaps a male horse
Details
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Title
Equid figurine, pehaps a male horse
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Associated place
Taya, Tell (101, Level 8, shrine) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.8 cm (length)
8.3 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1972.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1972.1845
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled with surface not smoothed after modelling; baked; coarse fabric; head and rear legs missing; upright mane and short tail (broken at tip); "it has an appliqué bolster of clay passing round the body and over its withers, and on its back traces of an appliqué saddle" (Reade 1968, 249).
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), 158, p.121, illus. p.121
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