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Armento Rider
The Armento Rider is an ancient bronze sculpture of a rider and a horse that was originally found in the town of Armento in southern Italy. Now part of the British Museum's collection, it is considered one of the oldest works of art from Western Greece or Magna Graecia.
Description.
The Armento Rider is a diminutive statue of a Greek warrior wearing a corinthian helmet who bestrides a horse with a long mane and elongated body. Solid cast in bronze in two separate pieces and made about 560-
Armento
Armento (Lucano: ) is a town and "comune" in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. The famous Armento Rider was found in the vicinity of Armento and is now in the British Museum.