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) |