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Date : approx. between 550 and 500 B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Bequest of Walter C. Baker (1971)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Area related
Eleusis (Greece)
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Horses were closely associated with wealthy land-owner class that could afford to raise and maintain them. Statues of horses and riders were sometimes offered as dedications at sanctuaries of the gods, such as that of Athena on the Akropolis in Athens and that of Demeter at Eleusis.
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