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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 30004 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 30 | | Object Suffix: | | 004 | | Description: | | Large horse or mule with rider. Mule with thin head and small applied muzzle. Groove for mouth. Horiztonal hole through nose. Small ears, bent nearly double. High, tongue-shaped mane between ears, with strongly concave front surface. Stands with weight evenly distributed on conical legs. Leg of rider slightly bent at foot; clay applied along underside. Large "disk" face, pinched into strongly projecting nose. Broad applied polos. Similar to KT 30-5 through KT 30-12 | | Material: | | Hard yellowish buff clay. | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Four joining frgts, preserving most of rider and right side of horse. Missing part of back of horse, two legs and tail, left leg and part of right arm of rider. | | Manufacture: | | F07 M HM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | middle or 3rd quarter of 4th c., according to Stillwell 1954, Corinth 15.2, p.177 | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P61 | | Provenance: | | Corinth. | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, Class XXIV, cat. 4, p. 178-179 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61)
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