Fragment
10th-15th century (made)
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Horse, buff coloured earthenware, hand modelled as a horse with a sadle, painted details in iron-reddish-brown pigment. Damaged.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Terracotta, modelled, painted |
| Brief description | Fragment of a camel, terracotta, with red-painted details to suggest henna; Iran. Unknown date. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Horse, buff coloured earthenware, hand modelled as a horse with a sadle, painted details in iron-reddish-brown pigment. Damaged. |
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| Content description | animal, camel or horse |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald T [sic] Reitlinger, 49 Glebe Place, Chelsea, SW. Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian, who in 1930-1, was part of an archaeological excavation at Kish in the Near East financed by the Field Museum, Chicago and in 1932 at Al-Hirah, financed by Oxford. |
| Production | Attribution based on register. Also some resemblance to Cypriot or Boeotian horses, 600 B.C. |
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| Accession number | C.245-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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