Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | T 2108 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA HORSE ON WHEELS | |
Category: | Miscellaneous | |
Category Code: | T | |
Object Number: | 2108 | |
Old Number: | TC-213 CH-224 | |
Description: | Horse on wheels with long barrel-shaped body widening at shoulders with projecting breast, arched neck, well-modeled head with flaring nostrils, projection at tip of upright mane, pointed ears, flat projecting disc for tail; wheels are solid disks, pierced at center with 6 spokes in low relief. Hole just behind muzzle for cord Diam. 0.003. Holes through shoulders and hindquarters for wheels. | |
Decoration: | White slip over all, traces of pinkish red on nostrils, shoulders, projection, chest. | |
Material: | Moderately fine clay with dense admixture of fine angular red mudstone and lime inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly pinker than 10YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Intact, but missing one wheel, RIP; wheels reassembled with pins and plastic washers. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.131 L00.245 W00.075 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Area: | Cheliotomylos | |
Context: | NB553 P136 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Cheliotomylos Image: bw 1966 131 08 Basket: NB553 P136 |