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Horses played an active role in warfare, transportation, and in the Panathenaic Games in Athens with its huge contingent of cavalry riders. Athenian enthusiasm for the horse was clearly expressed in the many civic buildings and temples that were adorned with paintings or sculptures of riders and battle scenes showing cavalry. An example is the Parthenon frieze from where this wonderful horse head originates. The Aristocratic families that ruled Athens during the 6th century B.C. took pride in their nobility by starting or ending their name with the word hippos (horse).

Made from compound stone, grey finiish, marble base, 8"H x 7"W x 3"D.

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