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    Head of a Horse, Walters Art Gallery 23.173, right profile. (The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore izniyle)
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    Head of a Horse, Walters Art Gallery 23.173, front view. (The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore izniyle)
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    Head of a Horse, Walters Art Gallery 23.173, left profile. (The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore izniyle)
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    Horse head, side view, in the field. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)
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    Horse head upon discovery, side view, with workman and Necropolis hill (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)
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    Horse head, 3/4 view. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)
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    Horse head, left side view. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)
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    Horse head, right side view. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)
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    Horse head, 3/4 view from front. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Arşiv, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Üniversitesi)

Bir At Başkanı

Dönem
Hellenistik
Müze
23.173
Müze Envanter No.
23.173
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
Walters Art Museum 23.173
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Heykel
Heykelin Türü
Hayvan
Yerleşim
Sardis
Alan (Sektör)
AT
Locus
AT Precinct
Bulunduğu Yeri
Found by Butler in 1914. Lost between 1914 and 1919. Bought by Walters in 1922 as coming from Egypt; arrived in Baltimore 1929. Collection became public (City of Baltimore) 1931.
Tanım

The head, which is turned slightly to the r., has a close-cropped mane which swings to the l. at the top. The horse's ears were erect. His lively face has small eyes beneath heavy bones, large and distended nostrils, and an open mouth with teeth showing. There are fleshy folds on his neck at the jaw. Bridle straps with a disc are on the forehead. There is evidence of the running drill, and drill holes were used to separate the two rows of teeth. The piece was finished with a file.

There is a rectangular hole on the underside near the front. The conical shape of the neck and the little-worked r. side suggest to D.K. Hill that the head sat directly on a base as an attribute of Castor and Pollux. The interest in anatomical detail and the bridle, which is prominently decorative, lead her to date the horse in the Hellenistic period.

Condition

White marble, coarse grained.

Ears broken off, mane damaged, lower edge chipped. Iron bit remains at I. of mouth.

Boyutlar
H. 0.353 (half life size).
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Kaynakça
Published: H.C. Butler, Fifth Preliminary Report, 430, fig. 3; T. L. Shear, Sixth Preliminary Report, 391, fig. 1; Sardis I, 153f., figs. 172-173; “Sardis Relics Stolen,” NYT (Mar. 11, 1923); Shear, Horse and Hill, passim. To D.K. Hill's list of horse statues associated with the Dioscuri, add those from the Fountain of Juturna, Rome, in E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary II, 12, fig. 682, and most recently in I. Iacopi, L'Antiquarium Forense, 85, fig. 83. I am grateful to G.M.A. Hanfmann for this reference.
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