Inv. Scu 1089

Pentelic marble horse, partially reassembled from numerous fragments. The horse is depicted standing with its front left and back right legs moved forward.

The coat is treated in fluid locks that fall in elegant curves.

The horse has been reconstructed inside a group with charioteer and chariot. The rendering of the tail, in fact, has strong analogies with the working of the charioteer’s hair; the quality of the marble is similar, the supports and pins analogous, the traces of red colouring identical.

The work perfectly fits the tradition of the 475s – 450s BC, thanks to the comparison with the horses on the eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.

The lower part is better preserved, where there is almost the entire underbelly with the front legs up to the knees and the left rear leg. The upper part is also preserved up to where the neck is joined.

There are large missing parts on the entire back, especially on the right side. Lastly, the entire left haunch with only a fragment of the right, the tail and the trunk-shaped support beneath the underbelly, but not the base, remain.

It is a Claudian (41- 54 AD) copy made of a 5th century BC original. 

The work comes from the Esquiline hill.