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Bronze horse from the Lanzhou Museum (Gansu)
This magnificent bronze sculpture of a horse was discovered in 1969, in a tomb.
This bronze, approximately thirty centimeters high, was discovered in 1969 in the Wuwei region in the tomb of Letai, Who contained several dozens of models bronze of tanks with their drivers And their escorts, of the men armed of spears with their frames And of the horses without riders.
Wuwei is located northwest of Lanzhou, at the start of the Hexi corridor, which leads to the western regions.
Description
Statuettes of a flying horse (Eastern Han dynasty/later),
late 2nd-early 3rd century AD, therefore during the Later Han period.
Bronze 34.5 x 45 cm.
Discoveries in the same tomb
