Figurine
Protome
48-2-136
From: Tunisia | Carthage
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 48-2-136 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | South Italian |
| Provenience | Tunisia | Carthage |
| Manufacture Location | South Italy |
| Date Made | 550-450 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Iconography | Horse |
| Description | Horse or hippocamp. Green patina. Front legs broken off, and the protome is broken just behind the shoulder. Protome is flat at the back where it was once attached to a vessel. Details of mane, collar and ribs are incised. |
| Height | 3.3 cm |
| Width | 2.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
| Other Number | 322 - Collector Number | L-2-234 - Old Loan Number |
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