Figurine of a horse and warrior
Clay models of horses and riders were very popular in Iron Age Cyprus. They were often placed in tombs and may have represented the person being buried. This figure is decorated with red and black painted details.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 31/1918/97
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- potterypigment
- Common Name
- figurine of a horse and warrior
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Cypriot Archaic - 750-500 BC
- Production Country
- Cyprus
