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Alternative Title
Abatos
Description
A medium-sized glazed ceramic horse figurine painted brown with one white sock on its right rear leg. The legs are extended and it stands on the tips of its hooves as if in motion.
2. Abatos. Another horse which customarily drew the chariot of Pluto.
Exhibit label:
ABATOS, THE HORSE OF PLUTO.
A gift from Gaius Julius Caesar the Divine.
—The Sixth Letter, in Ladies and Gentlemen.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
6.5 x 2 x 3.5
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Caesar, Julius
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Greek; Epistolary fiction, American
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 2, Abatos, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i002.jpg