Corinth Object: KT 30006
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KT 30006
Title:   HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE
Category:   Minor Finds
Category Code:   KT
Object Number:   30
Object Suffix:   006
Description:   Large horse or mule with rider. Horse 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 continuing partway down neck. Hands and feet not distinguised from rider's arms and legs; clay applied along underside of rider's body. Large "disk" face, pinched into strongly projecting nose. Broad applied polos. Similar to KT 30-4 through KT 30-12
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with rare fine inclusions and rare small voids
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. One frgt preserving head and neck of horse and all of rider except part of left leg.
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)