Figurine

Object Number:

54-28-46

Current Location:

Greece Gallery

Culture:

Greek

Provenience:

Cyprus
Kourion
Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

Locus:

Votive Deposit

Period:

Archaic Greek Period

Date Made:

6th century BC

Early Date:

-699

Late Date:

-500

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Terracotta

Iconography:

Horseman

Description:

Handmade, solid, face cast from mold, local Kourion fabric. "Horse (type 31) and rider (low tiara, flaps down, five studs); painted details on white ground." Both hands on horse's neck. Missing: right foreleg, left hindleg, foot on right hindleg, and a part of muzzle of horse; right foot of rider.

Credit Line:

Cyprus Expedition, George H. McFadden

Other Number:

T69	-	Field No SF
1539	-	Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)

Bibliography:

[Book] Young, J. and S. Young. 1955. Terracotta figures from Kourion. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 80, no. 1539, pl. 26

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