The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 71. The Moorish Horse. greatest part of the independent Libyans; they are nomads,and are harder to combat than the Scythians, inasmuch asthey roam, not on waggons, but on horseback, they and theirwomen. But certain relics from Egypt furnish some evidencethat Libyan women rode on hoiseback at least eight centuriesbefore Pausanias wrote, and also that the Libyan horses wereof a dark colour, like those seen on almost all Egyptianpaintings down to a late period. At Daphnae (the Tahpanhesof the Bible, mod. Defenneh) in the sandy desert betwe
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 71. The Moorish Horse. greatest part of the independent Libyans; they are nomads,and are harder to combat than the Scythians, inasmuch asthey roam, not on waggons, but on horseback, they and theirwomen. But certain relics from Egypt furnish some evidencethat Libyan women rode on hoiseback at least eight centuriesbefore Pausanias wrote, and also that the Libyan horses wereof a dark colour, like those seen on almost all Egyptianpaintings down to a late period. At Daphnae (the Tahpanhesof the Bible, mod. Defenneh) in the sandy desert between theSuez Canal and the cultivated Delta, Psammetichus I ( 665) 1 VIII. ^3, 3. T,r] AND HISTORIC TIMES 243 planted guards against the Syrians, as he also did at Elephantineagainst the Ethiopians and at Mnrea against the Fig. 72. Libyan woman on horseback. The guards planted at Daphnae were the Ionian andCarian mercenaries by whose aid he had seized the throned 1 Flinders Petrie, Tunis, Part ii., Nebesheh (Am), and Defenneh [Tahpanhes),pp. 47 sqq.; cf. Herod, ii. Herod, ii. 154. 16—2 244 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. Here the Greeks throve until they were deported to Memphis^by Amasis (about 570—565). The Greek pottery foundon the site, and which seems not to have been imported butmade on the spot, must fall between 664 and fragments of pottery show beautiful dark horses riddenby both men and women. On three fragments are representednude women on horseback, one of which is here shown (Fig. 72).The woman is painted white except her hair, her horse is dark,her dog painted Avhite runs beside her; behind flies an eagle,whilst in front of the horse is a bearded man painted all inblack^. Other fragments from Daphnae^ also show men on horse-back, rider and steed alike pa
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