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FRAGMENT: TWO HARNESSED HORSES WALKING LEFT
Terracotta
Height: 15cm
Width: 23cm
Width: 23cm
Museum number: M1161.F
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 465
Not on display
Curatorial note
A fragment showing a profiled view of two bridled and harnessed horses walking left; the cart reins extend up to the right beyond the irregularly broken edge.
Compare von Rohden1 a fragment in Rome, which is a quadriga (a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses abreast) viewed similarly, in triumphal procession.
1 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, vol. IV. 1,2, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit) p. 135, fig. 525.
Compare von Rohden1 a fragment in Rome, which is a quadriga (a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses abreast) viewed similarly, in triumphal procession.
1 H. Von Rohden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terracotten, vol. IV. 1,2, (Architektomische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit) p. 135, fig. 525.
Provenance
See Vermeule 459.
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