EXPLANATION of the PLATES, Sec; , 



ancient building (now a church) near the Gymnafium of 

 Ptolemy at Athens : the three lances have thongs of lea- 

 ther faftened to them, by which the foldiers mounted their 

 horfes, and clearly explain the exprefllon of Xenophon, 

 when he fays one of the methods of mountingwas 'nr\ $u^x- 

 T(^, or from the fpear, page 246. 



Plate 5. No. i. The emperor Trajan ; meant to fhew the Roman 

 manner of riding, page 58. 

 No. 2. The emperor Theododus, with a faddle on the 

 horfe, not unlike thofe now in ufe, page 62. 



Pi ATE 6. No. T. Ancient bridles, page 40. 



No. 2. An ancient horfedioe, fuppofed to have belonged to 

 the horfe of Childeric, king of France, Anno. 481. found 

 in his tomb, and preferved ia Montfaucon's Monum. de la 

 Monarc. Fran, page 255. 



No. 3. An ancient bitt, from Montfaucon, page 40. 



No. 4. An ancient fpur, from the fame, page 40. 



No. 5. Ancient whips, from Scheffer, page 41. 



Plate 7. No. i. Figure of an horfe, among others, fuppofed to have 



belonged to the king of the ^adi, in the time of Marcus 



Aurclius, and given here to fliew a little fort of Saddle, re- 



fembling the pad of thefe times, page 62. 



No. 2. The ficrure of an horfe faddled and bridled in the 



time of William the Conqueror, as reprefented in the Ba- 



yiux tapcftry in Dr. Ducarers Journey through Normandy. 



No. 3. and No. 4. An ancient Britifli or Roman fpur (the 



rowel wanting) and bitt: both dug out of a large burrow, 



in the road from London to Bath, called Silbury Hill •, and 



fuppofed, by antiquaries, to have been the tumulus, or 



place of burial, of the Britifh king Coel, whofe daughter 



Helena was the mother of Conjlantine the Great. Commu- 



oicated by Guftavus Brander, Efq. 



Plate 8^ 



