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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 28133 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 28 | | Object Suffix: | | 133 | | Description: | | Handmade horse and rider figurine; 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's 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 28-132 and KT 28-134, also from the same deposit. | | Decoration: | | White slip over all. | | Material: | | Fine very pale brown clay with few small inclusions and few small, irregular voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/2 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Two joining frgts preserving head of horse and part of torso, as well as right arm and right foot of rider. Gouges where rider's left hand and foot were once attached. Slip very poorly preserved. | | Manufacture: | | F07 M 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)
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