Votive horse head figurine
This small horse’s head was a votive or religious item. Many items like it were discovered during Flinders Petrie’s excavations of a Roman town in Egypt.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 945/1904
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Egypt Exploration Fund Committee
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- votive horse head figurine
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC; Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
