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THE HORSE IN BABYLONIA.—In the June issue of the Philadelphia Museum Journal Mr. Leon Legrain describes a series of Babylonian seals in the museum collection. In one of the most remarkable the rider, whip in hand, is represented with a bird-like head in profile with no distinct hair or beard, mounted on an animal which may be a horse or a donkey. Mr. Legrain is half disposed to regard this as the first representation of the horse in Babylonia, but this is far from certain. In the only known example of this type the animal has been called a bull, and the rider identified with the thunder god, Ramman Adad. But as the seal probably dates from the time of the Guti invasion, this mode of riding astride may be a new and foreign feature imported from the north-east by the Guti people.
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Research Items. Nature 112, 455–456 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112455a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112455a0