plaque
- Museum number
- 134643
- Description
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Fired clay plaque; press-moulded showing a saddled horse in scale armour galloping right.
- Production date
- 3rdC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.40 centimetres
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Length: 7.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Described by Nicolle as a "stucco plaque" of a stocky galloping horse wearing a scale armour trapper and saddle, and attributed to southern Iran. However, it is more likely to date to the 3rd century AD judging by the similarity to horse armour excavated at Dura, and is actually a mould-pressed terracotta plaque, probably from southern Iraq.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2021-2022 27 July-21 March, London, BM G69a, Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culture (unable to open to the public due to COVID-19 restrictions)
2012 24 May-30 Sep, BM, 'The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot'
2010 29 May-15 Oct, USA, Kentucky Horse Park, 'A Gift from the Desert'
1994 16 Jun-23 Dec BM, G49/IRAN
1971, BM, 'Royal Persia: a commemoration of Cyrus the Great and his successors on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire'
- Acquisition date
- 1965
- Acquisition notes
- Correspondence on file dated 23 April 1965.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134643
- Registration number
- 1965,0417.1
