Horse head, tuff, chiseled, Nenfro tuff, Total: Height: 40 cm, sculptures, funerary monument, grave furnishings, horse, archaic, The horse head is broken off directly at the base of the neck. The ears are missing. The almond-shaped eyes and the narrow version of the head point him to the archaic period. The broad mouth is closed. The mane is led down in a strand above the forehead on both sides. Horses are extremely rare as pictorial subjects of the Nenfro sculpture. One of the most famous representations is the statue of a rider on a horse in Copenhagen. It is possible that this head was once part of a tomb statue that characterized the deceased as a rider.
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