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10th-15th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Horse, buff coloured earthenware, hand modelled as a horse with a sadle, painted details in iron-reddish-brown pigment. Damaged.

Object details

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.8cm
  • Length: 11.5cm
Content description
animal, camel or horse
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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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.
Collection
Accession number
C.245-1931

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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