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Alternative Title
Ethon, or Aithon
Description
A tiny, delicate ceramic horse figurine standing with its left hind leg slightly bent and its tail flicking. A bay horse that lightens to white on the legs and muzzle. Hooves, tail, mane, and forelock are a contrasting dark brown.
22. Ethon, or Aithon. One of the horses of Hector, in the eighth book of the Illiad.
Exhibit label:
ETHON, THE HORSE OF HECTOR.
A gift from Ananias, Citizen of Jerusalem.
—The Seventh Letter in Ladies and Gentlemen.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
3 x 0.8 x 3
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Homer. Iliad; Hector (Greek mythological character); Bible. New Testament
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 22, Ethon, or Aithon, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i022.jpg