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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 28143 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 28 | | Object Suffix: | | 143 | | Description: | | Handmade horse and rider figurine; horse stands with spread legs, with thick tail held at an upward angle. The rider has a plain disk face and a thick applied polos. His flat, broad hands attach to the base of the horse's neck and his legs are short and broad. Similar to KT 28-140, KT 28-142, and KT 28-143 from the same deposit and KT 28-139 (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, inv. XXIII, 35) from Deposit 2 (Stillwell says Deposit 1, but the notebook reference confirms Deposit 2). | | Decoration: | | Traces of white slip over all, traces of yellow pigment on horse, red pigment on rider and horse's neck. | | Material: | | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare fine inclusions and rare fine voids | | Munsell Color: | | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Six joining fragments preserving all of rider except right arm and 60% of horse, missing horse's head and forelegs, as well as most of the right hind leg; white slip and pigment poorly preserved | | Manufacture: | | F07 M HM | | Weight Description: | | 0.020 | | Weight: | | 0.020 | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 23) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB108 P142 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, South of Court, Deposit 1 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 72 (pp. 142 - 143)
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