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THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC 



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(Fig, 71) the Maurus (Morocco horse) depicted by Stradanus 

 (an artist who lived in the latter half of the sixteenth century) 

 in the Equile Johannis Ducis Austriaci (" The Stable of 

 Don John of Austria "). 



Writing two centuries later than Strabo and Livy, Pausanias 

 says^ that "when the Mauri took up arms against Rome, Antoni- 

 nus drove them out of all their land and forced them to flee into 

 the uttermost parts of Libya as far as Mount Atlas and the 

 peoples who dwell in that mountain. These Mauri form the 



Fig. 71. The Moorish Horse. 



greatest part of the independent Libyans ; they are nomads, 

 and are harder to combat than the Scythians, inasmuch as 

 they roam, not on waggons, but on horseback, they and their 

 women." But certain relics from Egypt furnish some evidence 

 that Libyan women rode on horseback at least eight centuries 

 before Pausanias wrote, and also that the Libyan horses were 

 of a dark colour, like those seen on almost all Egyptian 

 paintings down to a late period. At Daphnae (the Tahpanhes 

 of the Bible, mod. Defenneh) in the sandy desert between the 

 Suez Canal and the cultivated Delta, Psammetichus I (B.C. 665) 



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