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further saw that the earliest representations of Pegasus are 

 found on the pottery from Daphnae (p. 245), and that the 

 winged steed carries his tail like the pure-bred 'Arab/ from 

 which we were led to conclude that the swift Libyan horse had 

 been taken as a model for the winged steed. A vase from 

 Enkomi and another from Curium show horses which carry 

 their tails in the true North African fashion. This clearly 



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 FIG. 81. Vase from Enkomi, Cyprus. 



demonstrates that about B.C. 1000 the Libyan horse was familiar 

 to the Cypriote vase-painter, although a fragment of another 

 vase (Fig. 82) indicates that he was also acquainted with horses 

 of the ordinary European-Asiatic type, as is shown by the way 



(1900), p. 49, nos. 981, 1113 (Enkomi), p. 73, no. 136 (Curium). The chariot 

 shown on the carved ivory combined draught-board and box (op. cit. p. 12) found 

 at Enkomi, has wheels of six spokes like the common Egyptian form of chariot 

 evolved from the earlier four-spoked wheel (supra, p. 224). 



