Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 15, folder 2·Undated

Kaloriziki, Figurine

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 15, folder 2 (Kaloriziki, Figurine), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 15, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 13

Body of horse tubulus with thick tapering, slightly bowed legs (fore+aft)wide-wise, legs are planted out, like legs of a triangle, Neck also tubularslanted forward ending in flattened head at right angles. Mane is aridge caused by flattening upper part of neck and has forward-pointedtermination, as if clipped. Tail large tubular-shaped, tapering ap-pendage hanging straight down & away from hump. Rider isessentially a semi-circle with splayed legs, an epicycle as mountright arm, left arm straight, attached to horse's neck. Small up-raised head well set off from body with very more prominent feature,Decoration: chief motif is ladder design: from eye of horsedown foreleg to paw, across rump & down to paw, down rider's legs,across his shoulders & up his arms, tail, mane, strides head & horse'ssnout painted black, beard indicated on rider but no eyes. Horse's eyesdotted circles. Mid-neck + top of forelegs have 2 horizontal lines joinedon horse's breast by an ×. Red paint in upper & lower of triangles thus formed+ on lower part of foreleg, also perhaps on tip of snout.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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  • Horse and rider figurine

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