model
- Museum number
- EA34987
- Description
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The head of a hollow terracotta horse, broken from a figure. A suspension-hole is pierced through the neck. Two-piece mould. Pink Aswan kaolinite ware. White/yellow slip overall. Mane, eyes, ears and harness are in fired-on black ceramic colour; orange-red colour on front of head, across throat and down chest.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.47 centimetres (max)
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Width: 2.32 centimetres (max)
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Depth: 5.20 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester. Acquired at Elephantine?: most of the Registration Numbers leading up to this one were purchased there, and the mark 'E' may point to this place.
Late Roman, sixth or seventh century AD.
Comparanda: Near: Adams 2000: 93, fig. 31c, pl. 20d:3, from Meinarti in Nubia, context between about late fifth and mid-seventh century AD; Bonham and Brooks' 'Sale Catalogue', 8 November 2001: lot 655; Bonham's 'Sale Catalogue', 16 May 2002: lot 703; Boutantin 2004: 9, fig. 4, from Narmouthis, dated fifth to sixth century AD; Mond and Myers 1940: pls xxvi:P 17 and lxx:20, from Armant.
Bibliog: Boutantin 2004: 4, no. 7, dated fifth to sixth century AD.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - head only
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA34987
- Registration number
- 1875,0517.67
