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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 30001 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE, MONKEY-MULE TYPE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 30 | | Object Suffix: | | 001 | | Description: | | Mule carrying monkey. Pointed, braced legs. Hindlegs bent slightly at knee. Long face, widened across eyes. Broad applied muzzle with deep groove for mouth. Between long, pointed ears, short applied mane, pinched together along center. Legs of monkey bent at knee and ankle. Mitten-shaped hands grasp ears of mule. Elongated muzzle with deep gash for mouth. Small bosses represent ears, left pierced by small hole. Sharp-edged applied polos. Clay added between left leg of monkey and flank of mule. | | Material: | | Hard yellowish buff clay. | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Tale broken off, frgt. of rider missing. | | Manufacture: | | F07 M HM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | middle or 3rd quarter of 4th c., according to Corinth 15.2 | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P61 | | Provenance: | | Corinth. | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. From deposit 6 in East Room of Terracotta Factory. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, Class XXIV, cat. 1, p. 178 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61)
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