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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 11469 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: HORSE AND RIDER | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 11469 | |
| Description: | Terracotta solid handmade horse with a pointed snout, rectangular head, eye ridge, ears perked straight up together, short neck, long legs in inverted V, long thin cylindrical body, back lt. leg extending back, and thick straight pointed tail tilted to rt. Part of rt. Arm of rider attached to rt. Side of neck. Similar to KT28-119, KT28-156, and KT28-98 (Corinth XV.2 Class XXIII Late Group p.175 no.29 pl. 37). | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with frequent fine sparkling, few medium tabular angular white, and rare fine platy angular black inclusions and few small to medium platy angular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Five joining fragments missing bottom of rt front and all rt hind legs and all of rider except rt hand. Large chunk missing on lt side of neck. Traces of white slip. | |
| Manufacture: | F07 U HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.068, L. 0.085, Th. of torso 0.015 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.029 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | late 5th c. B.C. (Corinth XV.2 Class XXIII no. 29 Circular S. Shrine) | |
| Area: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| Context: | NB232 B4 P146 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Kokkinovrysi | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Kokkinovrysi Image: bw 1965 005 22 Basket: NB232 B4 P146 |
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