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Alternative Title
Phrenicos
Description
A small bisqueware horse with hair texture and musculature depicted in the molding. The mane, forelock, tail and hooves are painted a dark grey. The horse looks straight ahead and while standing upright and resting its left hind leg with the toe touching the ground.
40. Phrenicos. The horse, pre-eminent for its sagacity, of Hiero the First, tyrant of Syracuse (478-467 B. C.), which won the prize for single horses in the seventy-third Olympiad.
Exhibit label:
PHRENICOS, THE HORSE OF HIERO THE FIRST, TYRANT OF SYRACUSE.
A gift from Mr. Thomas Ritchie of Tappahannock, Virginia, Editor of the Richmond Enquirer.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
4 x 1 x 4
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, -467 B.C. or 466 B.C.; Ritchie, Thomas, 1778-1854
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Greece--History; Race horses
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
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Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 40, Phrenicos, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i040.jpg