Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KT 28127 | |
Title: | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KT | |
Object Number: | 28 | |
Object Suffix: | 127 | |
Description: | Small standing horse figurine with straight legs. Narrow pointed head swells at brow. Mane indicated by upright tongue-shaped attachment at top of head. Tube-shaped body with conical legs, pointed tail continuing line of body. Tip of rider's rounded right hand attached to neck; depressions for rider's other limbs visible. | |
Decoration: | Smoothing marks and finger prints. | |
Material: | Fine white clay with rare fine inclusions and rare round voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/2 (white) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Three joining frgts preserving most of horse. Left back leg missing, rider missing except for part of right hand. | |
Manufacture: | F10 HM | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Middle to 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P61 | |
Provenance: | Corinth. | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |