# Can anyone identify this sculpture for me, please?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 8, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332 "2012-11-08T05:09:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/1 "2012-11-08T05:09:27Z")

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[Click](http://www.imagebam.com/image/eb5038219124914)

I’ve been trying every combination of hairy/tentacled horse(?) sculpture and all I’ve learnt as a result is that sometimes hentai _can_ scare the bejeezus out of me.

Link is completely work safe.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/2 "2012-11-08T06:36:55Z")

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Appears to be [Genghis Khan in London](http://www.artrussia.ru/artnews.php?id=826).

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**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/3 "2012-11-08T19:11:32Z")

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Yay! I knew I could count on Dopers to come up with something. Thank you! How did you manage to find it, if you don’t mind me asking?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/4 "2012-11-08T22:36:40Z")

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I recognised that the rider was Asian, and assumed at first it was Chinese. When that bore no fruit, I tried Mongolian, and there it was.

On the way I found [this](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-08ZQ8fK9g8Q/T_Wa6Cf0DmI/AAAAAAAAC-c/D_r8Qa2HRWY/s1600/10+-+Genghis+Khan+Statue.JPG), which amazed me.

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**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/5 "2012-11-12T14:08:10Z")

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I am much obliged to you, sir. I didn’t quite recognize the rider as human at all so I went for myth, and my fallback, as usual, was Greek. Between that and the tentacle-y things I got pretty confused.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-sculpture-for-me-please/640332/6 "2012-11-12T14:13:08Z")

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Dopers are awesome.