ID | 162 |
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Images | |
Grid Ref | TL4370 |
Project type | Chance |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Site | Cottenham |
Site Name | Willingham Fen |
Site Type | Unknown |
Location Type | Hoard |
Context | Unknown |
Context Quality | 1 |
Context Date | mid-late 2nd? |
Object Period | 0 |
Material | Bronze |
Other finds from site | Box containing objects and other figurines (see 28) |
Import | No |
Place of manufacture | Local |
Location | Cambridge University Museum |
Ref No | 1918.160.3 |
M/F | Male |
Age | Mature |
Form | Figurine |
Type | Composite |
Name | Horse and rider |
Bearded | Yes |
Headgear | Corinthian helmet |
Clothed | Yes |
Clothing description | Kilt, cuirass |
Drapery | No |
Condition | Horse missing lower legs and tail, rider missing right arm and most of left, no feet, damage to helmet crest and horse mane |
Classical | 0 |
Quality | Stylised 1 |
Photo | Yes |
Illustration | No |
Height | 73.00 |
Length | 72.00 |
References | Pitts 1979, no140, pl22; Toynbee 1964, 119; Green 1976, 210; Taylor 1963, 266 [Link to Bibliography] |
Description | Rider is bearded with a short moustache, fine facial features and band of curly hair framing the face. Careful depiction of the face and head is in contrast to the rest of the body. The torso is a rectangle with spindly legs which extend straight down either side of the horse, there is no definition of the waist or hips and awkward depiction of shoulder. He wears a pleated skirt with straight deep grooves and a beaded band at the waist and lower edge of the skirt. The body of the horse is too small, the neck long and thick, the mane is largely missing. Although worn, one can see that the face of the horse was more carefully modelled with nostrils, eyes, mouth and broken ears. Curious combination of fine features and crudely depicted body. Rider too big for the horse, proportions bad. |
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