Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KT 30009 | |
Title: | HORSE AND RIDER FIGURINE | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KT | |
Object Number: | 30 | |
Object Suffix: | 009 | |
Description: | Large horse or mule with rider. Mule with thin head and small applied muzzle with depressions for nostrils and groove for mouth. Large, pointed ears. Small, triangular mane between ears and down neck. Leg of rider slightly bent at foot. Small hole pierced entirely through horse's torso immediately below where rider's body would have been (possibly related to attachment of the rider? Some traces of burning (blackened areas) and overfiring (greenish clay). Similar to KT 30-4 through KT 30-12. | |
Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with few fine inclusions and few small voids | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/2 (very pale brown) to 10Y 8/1 (light greenish grey) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Three joining frgts preserving head of horse (one ear partially missing), neck, part of torso, and upper part of right foreleg, as well as right leg of rider. | |
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, Terracotta Factory, Deposit 6. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |