CABALLOS DEL CORTEJO DE LOS REYES MAGOS

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Maestro Mateo and his workshop circa 1200 Granite with remains of polychromy The access for the canons of the cathedral to the interior of the choir, which occupied the first sections of the central nave of the cathedral, was made through the open door at its head, requiring a previous passage through the facade of the trascoro, presided over by a tympanum with the Adoration of the Magi that has not been preserved. On one side, a relief with the Annunciation would be placed, and on the other side, this piece, recovered in some archaeological works performed in 1978 at the top of the Obradoiro staircase. The architectural element in the form of a rectangular tower located on one side continues the sequence of its own crestería of the exterior walls of the choir, where biblical figures and towers alternated; from it, the heads of three horses appear, stepped out, identified with the retinue of the Magi kings of the adjacent tympanum.