Fragment of a Byzantine Bowl with a Horse and Rider, 1200–1268AD



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Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider
Date: 1200–1268
Geography: Made in Port Saint Symeon (now al-Mina/Samandag, Turkey)
Culture: Byzantine
Medium: Terracotta with green glaze over slip, decorated in sgraffito
Dimensions: Overall: 6 3/4 x 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 3 3/8 in. (17.2 x 1.3 x 27 x 8.5 cm) Proposed Diameter for complete bowl: 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Accession Number: 1984.181



See also Fresco of Saint Bacchus, Church of Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi, Nabk, Syria, portrayed as a Byzantine cavalryman, 1208-9AD
Fresco of the Centurion at the Crucifixion, Katholikon at the monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa, Kastoria, Greece, c.1260AD
Other Byzantine Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers