172 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



38, p. 138). The inscription indicates the name 

 of the town. 



Page 30. From a black- figured amphora in 

 the Hermitage collection, St. Petersburg, illustrated 

 (in outline merely) in the " Comte Rendu de la 

 Commission Imperiale Archeologique," 1864, p. 5, 

 from which I take it. The horse is bending his 

 knees to allow the Amazon to mount (see p. 138). 

 The inscription above has not been deciphered. 



Page 33. From Koepp's " Ueber das Bildnis 

 Alexanders des Grossen," p. 3. A gold medallion 

 from Tarsus, of the time of the Emperor Com- 

 modus, in the " Cabinet des medailles," the 

 obverse of which bears a fine head of Alexander 

 the Great. The reverse, in our picture, shows the 

 king hunting a Hon. Professor Emerson has sug- 

 gested (in the " American Journal of Archaeology," 

 1887, p. 253) that for this medallion was selected 

 the central figures in a bronze group, called the 

 Lion Hunt, by Lysippus, dedicated at Delphi by 

 Craterus (Plutarch, Alexander, 40). In this group 

 were included hunting-dogs and Craterus himself 

 coming up to help. The picture shows the flaps 

 at the shoulders and about the loins, mentioned by 

 Xenophon in his description of the cuirass (p. 66). 

 A leopard's skin serves instead of a cloth (notes 

 42, p. 140, and 66, p. 153). The inscription 

 means " King Alexander." 



Page 34. From Panofka's "Bilder Antiker 



