Archaic II
Terracotta wheeled horse
With characteristic imagination, not to say extraordinary foresight, the Cypriot modeler has equipped a draft horse with wheels. On its back it carries two storage jars. From other Greek examples, scholars have hypothesized that these wheeled horses were toys and that the containers carried water. H. 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm)
Date
599 - 500 BC
Accession No.
74.51.815
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 526, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 46-47, fig. 56, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 46-47, fig. 56, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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