Cypriot Terracotta Wheeled Horse in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Terracotta wheeled horse

Period: Cypro-Archaic ?

Date: 6th century B.C.(?)

Culture: Cypriot

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.815

Description: With characteristic imagination, not to say extraordinary foresight, the Cypriot modeler has equipped a draft horse with wheels. On its back it carries two storage jars. From other Greek examples, scholars have hypothesized that these wheeled horses were toys and that the containers carried water.

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