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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KT 30007 | | Title: | | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KT | | Object Number: | | 30 | | Object Suffix: | | 007 | | Description: | | Large horse or mule with rider. Horse with thin head and small applied muzzle. Groove for mouth. High, tongue-shaped mane between ears. Conical leg. Hand and feet of rider not distinguished from arms and leg. Disc face pinched into pointed nose. Applied polos. Similar to KT 30-4 through KT 30-12.
Clay fired very different colors on each side, possibly misfired. Based on KT 30-5, likely that entire groupof horses and mules (KT 30-1, KT 30-2, KT 30-3, etc.) found with it represents single lot of figurines discarded after an unsuccessful firing. | | Material: | | Fine clay ranging from very pale brown to reddish yellow, with few small inclusions and few small voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) to 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. One frgt preserving horse's head, neck, left foreleg and part of torso, as well as all of rider except right leg. | | Manufacture: | | F07 M HM | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | Middle to 3rd quarter of the 4th century 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)
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