Armento Rider
Armento rider and horse on display in the British Museum
Material	Bronze
Size	23.6 cm high
Created	560-550 BC
Present location	British Museum,London
Registration	GR 1904.7-3.1

TheArmento Rider is an ancient bronze sculpture of a rider and a horse that was originally found in the town ofArmento in southern Italy. Now part of theBritish Museum's collection, it is considered one of the oldest works of art from Western Greece orMagna Graecia.^[1]

The Armento Rider is a diminutive statue of a Greek warrior wearing acorinthian helmet who bestrides a horse with a longmane and elongated body. Solid cast in bronze in two separate pieces and made about 560-550 BC, it is one of the earliest bronzes to be produced in theancient Greek world. The rider is shown beardless wearing a short beltedchiton and once used to hold a spear and reins for the horse.

The bronze sculpture originally belonged to the Hungarian collector Gábor Fejérváry, who purchased it inNaples in 1833. After passing through several collections, it was eventually acquired by the British Museum in 1904.^[2] When first discovered the statue was wrongly attributed to the settlement ofGrumentum, although recent research has shown that it originated from Armento, an ancient Greek site from the region ofBasilicata, southern Italy.

• L. Burn, The British Museum book of Greece (London, The British Museum Press, 1991)
• C. Rolley, Greek bronzes (London, Sotheby's Publications / Chesterman Publications, 1986)
• H. B. Walters: British Museum. Select bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Departments of Antiquities, London 1915

• Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum
• Statues in Italy
• Bronze sculptures in London
• Archaeological discoveries in Italy

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