Horse
Item Overview
- Title
- Horse
- Photographer
- Suresh Vasant
- Date Created
- 1975
- Date
- 1975
- Place of Origin
- Ter, Osmanabad, Maharashtra (India)
- Collection
- AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
- Program
- Modern Endangered Archives Program
Notes
- Description
- Caparisoned horse
- Contents note
- This object was housed at the Late Ramlingappa Lamture Government Museum, Ter, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, India at the time of photography in 1975. It was executed in a double-mold technique of casting that was popular during the Satavahana period from 99 BCE - 299 CE . The sculpture was discovered at Ter, an important trade center on the ancient Maritime Silk route. Ter has been identified as Tagara, which has been mentioned in The Periplus of Erythrean sea (The periplus is a logbook recording sailing itineraries and commercial, political and ethnographic details about the ports visited. The Periplus of Erythrean sea is a Greco Roman periplus that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports along Red Sea, ports along Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Arabian sea and Indian Ocean, which included modern Sindh region of Pakistan and Southwestern regions of India). The object material is kaolin clay. The dimensions are 7.2 (H) x 7.1 (B) cm. This could be a figurine of a ceremonial horse.
Physical Description
- Dimensions
- 2" x 2"
Keywords
- Genre
- black-and-white negatives
- Subject Geographic
- Ter (Osmanabad), Maharashtra (India)
- Subject Temporal
- 1 B.C.E.-299 C.E.
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- terracottas (sculptural works)
Find This Item
- Repository
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology, Gurugram, Haryana
- Local Identifier
- 103674
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1936gfm
- Archival Collection
- Walter Spink Negative, Box 157/75
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights Holder
- caa.archives@aiis.edu.in
- Funding Note
- Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.