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shields. The rider wears the usual short mantle. 

 The horse is a much better animal than the one 

 represented in the plate just treated ; on his gait 

 see p. 141. x\nother horse is led at the left 

 as the outlines show. This is not uncommon 

 in art. 



Page 76. From an Attic cylix, or cup, found at 

 Orvieto, in Central Italy, described and illustrated 

 by G. Korte in the " Archaologische Zeitung," 

 1880, taf. 15. It is now in the Berlin Museum. 

 The picture represents the examination for admis- 

 sion to the Athenian cavalry, the BoKLfiaa-La (see 

 p. 76). At the left, just below the handle of the 

 cup, is a bearded man seated under a tree, with a 

 stylus and a writing-tablet in his hands. In front 

 of him stands a man with a long staff (the cup is 

 here broken). Towards them are approaching 

 three young men, dressed alike, not in armour, but 

 in the usual gala or parade costume of the cavalry, 

 — a chlamys, or short cloak, buckled at the 

 shoulder ; a petasus, or broad-brimmed hat ; and 

 KoOopvoL, or high riding-boots (actually, the artist 

 has represented these boots only in the case of the 

 second rider). Each brings up his horse by a 

 leading-rein (see note 38, p. 138), not by the 

 bridle (see note 34, p. 136) ; the bridles in fact 

 are here left to the imagination, and the leading- 

 rein is supposed to be attached to the chin-strap 

 or nose-band. In the cut on p. 39 the bridle-rein 



