Head and neck of a horse figurine

Title

Head and neck of a horse figurine
Associated place

Chagar Bazar (E.181) (place of excavation)
Date

Middle Bronze Age I (Near East) (2100 - 2000 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, hand-modelled and with painted and applied decoration
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

7.5 x 6.2 cm (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1938.92

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; baked; pinkish-buff fabric with creamslip; light brown painted details on eyes and head-harness in applied clay; ears broken off; horse's mane painted on the neck; traces of a neckband in applied clay.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

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