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was a typical position seen in every riding-school, 

 and hence that there is no proof that our picture 

 was painted in Athens or copied from the Parthe- 

 non. Note the method of attachment of the bit 

 (p. 146), and the leading-rein, distinguished from 

 the bridle-rein (p. 163). On the fetlocks, see 

 note 6, p. 122. 



Page 44. A statuette found in the excavations 

 at Dodona, the ancient seat of the worship of 

 Zeus. It is of the most archaic style of work 

 found there, and may belong to the seventh 

 century b. c. I take the picture from " Dodone 

 et ses mines," Carapanos, pi. 13, i, described in 

 vol. i, p. 183. The mane of the horse is very thick 

 and long (see p. 91) ; the forelock is arranged 

 in a sort of tuft, as in Assyrian reliefs (see for 

 example the plate facing p. 145). A similar 

 arrangement, though not found, I believe, in works 

 of the fifth and early fourth century, appears again 

 in later art ; see the frontispiece of this book, and 

 the cuts on pp. 13 and 51. On the bridle, see 

 p. 146. The peculiar shape of the rein (I mean 

 the swallow-tailed look at the middle) is found in 

 some Assyrian reliefs ; and on the whole this stat- 

 uette bears many resemblances to those works. 



Page 45. From "Peintures de Vases Antiques 

 recueilles par Millin et Millingen : publics et com- 

 mentees par S. Reinach," pi. i, 45. A vase in the 

 Malmaison collection in the Louvre, found in 



