EXPLANATION of the PLATES 



AND 



REFERENCES TO THE RESPECTIVE PAGES 



O F T H E 



FIRST VOLUME. 



Frontispiece. A Centaur. 



At the head of the dedication. A white horfe, being the arms of the 

 houfe of Hanover, page ^6. 



Plate r. Suppofed to reprefent Darius^ faluted king of Perfia, when 

 he had gained the empire by the neighing of his horfe ; — and given 

 here only to fhew the conformity of the manner of riding between 

 the ancient and modern Eaftern nations, page 14. 



Plate 2. No. i. A Parthian horfeman, page 16. 

 No. 2. A Sarmatian horfe, page 21. 



Plate 3. No, i. A Roman foldier pulling a Numidian from his 

 horfe. 

 No. 2. A Mauritanian horfeman, page 23. 



Plate 4. Two Grecian horfemen, taken from the freeze of the temple 

 of Minerva in the Acropolis of Athens ; the whole extent 

 of which is one continued bas-relief: and, according to 

 Mr. Sleuart, (who obligingly furnifhed me with jhis defign) 

 reprefents the Panathenaic pomp, or a proceffion in honour 

 of Minerva; as the above learned gentleman will more 

 particularly explain in his fecond volume of the Antiquities 

 of Athens, page 45. 



The Lances, fhield and vafe, at the bottom of this print 



given by the fame perfon, are taken from the wall of an 



Vol. I. U u an- 



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