174 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



haps wanting in the art of Greece proper ; not so 

 in that of Asia (see for example the Heroon of 

 Gjolbaschi, a work of the fifth century b. c, and 

 Daremberg et SagUo, ii, p. 751). The Amazons, 

 to be sure, are frequently found on horseback, 

 riding like men ; other females, whether goddesses 

 or women, are represented as women ride to-day, 

 except that, so far as I know, they are seated, not 

 to the left, but to the right of the horse, as in our 

 picture. 



Page 39. Painting on a vase in the Berlin 

 Museum, found probably at Nola ; from the illus- 

 tration in the *' Archaologische Zeitung," 1878, taf. 

 22, where it is described by C. Robert. In this 

 picture a young horseman (on his costume see 

 p. 163) is making his horse throw forward the off 

 forefoot so as to assume the position described by 

 the verb vTro^ilSdC^aOaL (see p. s^ ^^d note 37, 

 p. 137). The motive of this picture and all the 

 attitudes so closely resemble a group on the west 

 side of the Parthenon frieze that Robert does not 

 hesitate to say that the vase must have been 

 painted in Athens, and that it is one of the rare 

 instances of a vase-painting copied from work in 

 stone. But Brunn, in an article in the same peri- 

 odical (1880, p. 18) finds a similar motive in 

 other works.; for instance, in the coin of Larissa 

 (see p. 54 of this book) and in a Roman relief 

 (mentioned on p. 138). He concludes that this 



