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Alternative Title
Incitatus
Description
A small grey ceramic horse figurine with contrasting black forelock, mane, tail and hooves. The mane and tale are molded to suggest the texture of hair. The horse is depicted bending its mouth down to its right knee, as if using its teeth to scratch an itch.
30. Incitatus. The horse of Gaius Cesar Caligula (Roman emperor from 37 to 41, B.C.), which he appointed to be both priest and consul. It had an ivory manger, and in place of water was served with Falerian wine in a golden bucket.
Exhibit label:
INCITATUS, THE HORSE OF THE EMPEROR CALIGULA.
A gift from the Lady Rebecca Rolfe, Called Pocahontas.
—The Fourteenth Letter, in Ladies and Gentlemen.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
6 x 2 x 4
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41; Pocahontas, -1617
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Rome--History; Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Indigenous peoples--America
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
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 30, Incitatus, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i030.jpg