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Horse Figurine with Handle, Archaic I Cypriot statue
Horse Figurine with Handle, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 800–600 BC. British Museum, 1876,0909.99.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic I

Horse Figurine with Handle

Terracotta horse figurine with handle on the back, possibly a toy; hand-made; long solid cylindrical body on four tapering legs, whose surface has been shaved with a tool; elongated neck and head with a crested mane (now broken at the end); loop handle on the back; end of tail is also missing; buff clay decorated in red and black paint: chequer-pattern on the body and neck, perhaps representing a cloth cover, maltese-cross motifs with hatched or solid black wings on the rump, short parallel strokes on the mane, details of eyes painted black, the small pellet ears in red, the ends of the legs and nose are solid black, black zig-zag on the handle. Dimensions: Length: 13.50 - 18 centimetres; Height: 16.10 centimetres max. Object Type: figure Techniques: painted; handmade

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figurine
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Horse, Lattice and checkerboard, Maltese cross
Material
Clay
Date
800 - 600 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1876,0909.99, British Museum · Museum record

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