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Relief of a Horse Rider from Balat
This rectangular marble piece depicts a horse rider advancing to the right. The upper body is encased in an armor (the shape of the armor fits the anatomical contours of the chest and upper abdomen). He holds a short and wide sword in his...
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Mongol with Horse & Camel
A Chinese ink painting of a Mongol rider with a horse and camel. The painting was produced by an unidentified artist c. 1271–1368, when China was ruled by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty established by Kublai Khan. Ink and color on silk. 30...
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White Horse of Uffington
The white horse of Uffington, a Bronze Age carving into the chalk hills in Oxfordshire, England.
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Fragment of Urartian Horse Harness
This bronze plaque is engraved, at the upper part, with a figure of a god in a winged sun-disc. Originally, this plaque was part of a horse-harness (side-piece ), which was stitched to a leather backing. From Eastern Anatolia, in modern-day...
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Horse Bit from Lorestan
A horse bit with cheek pieces in the form of horses. From Lorestan, modern western Iran. Sassanid period, 224-651 CE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Mulan with a Horse
Scene of Mulan a with horse. Printed in ink, colour on paper.
1867 CE, Dingmao, China
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Eos in Her Four-horse Chariot
Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Urartian Horse Mural Fragment
This mural fragment of a running horse once adorned the large palace hall at Erebuni Fortress, which is located in present-day Yerevan, Armenia. It dates from roughly the 8th century BCE. (Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Culture Preserve...
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Assyrian Royal Horse Bridle
This gypsum wall panel depicts two female courtiers in front of a table, on which the royal horse bridle has been placed. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashurbanipal II, 660-650 BCE. From the North Palace at Nineveh, Mesopotamia, modern-day...
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Haniwa Horse
A terracotta haniwa (tomb-marker) in the form of a horse. Asuka Period, 6th century CE, Japan. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)