Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (ANET)

Terracotta: AN1913.451

Object : Horseman

Period : Iron Age: Achaemenid Period

Dimensions : H: 10.8cm. W: 4.2cm.

Region : Northern Levant

Find Spot : no provenance

Description : handmodelled with stamped or mouldmade face; baked; brownish-buff core with traces of a cream slip; the horse is represented only by support wedges, with a divided base-line to indicate hooves, from which rises the upper part of a man with cap folded over at the top; mouldmade face with moustache and beard; strong facial features now rubbed; holds a disk in his left hand with his right arm bent and the open hand held against the disk immediately below the chin.

Reference : Moorey (2004) 378

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