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Terracotta: AN1913.128

Object: Upper part of a horseman

Period: Iron Age: Achaemenid Period

Dimensions: H: 12.3cm. W: 4.7cm.

Region: Northern Levant

Find Spot: no provenance

Description: handmodelled with mouldmade or stamped face; baked; brown fabric with polished surface; handmodelled body with no features; left arm down side, right broken off; broken across the lower body; "Phrygian" cap with side flaps framing the face, which is delicately modelled.

Reference: Moorey (2004) 379

Follow this link to the Northern Levant in the Iron Age Chapter of the Catalogue