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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 28130 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 28 | | Object Suffix: | | 130 | | Description: | | Handmade horse and rider figurine; horse stands with weight evenly distributed on conical legs, rider situated very close to the horse's neck. The horse's muzzle is narrow with the head swelling towards the eyes; the horse's ears are not distinguished from the forelock of the mane, which projects in a tongue-shape above the horse's brow.. Rider has an applied rounded face with a thick applied polos. Hands and feet not distinguised from arms and legs. The rider's arms attach to the horse's neck just behind the head. Very similar to KT 28-128 through KT 28-129 and KT 28-131 through KT 28-134, also from the same deposit. | | Material: | | Fine, very pale brown clay with rare small, rounded red inclusions and rare fine voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. One frgt preserving head, neck, and front legs of horse and all of rider. | | Manufacture: | | F01 M F10 HM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle to third 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)
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