Prometopidia & chestplate - ancient horse armor

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a short entry - from the Getty Villa, museum in Los Angeles, US - 

Promtopidia

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Prometopidia - Getty description 

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  description from the California museum

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Helmets with horses and horsemen

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from the collections of American MET and Italian state museums come these objects with horse engraved, incised or repoussed on the bronze helmets.

South-central Crete , a late VII century BC bronze helmet with horses  created through the  repousse technique (with small lions incised). - from the MET.

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the 500-450 BC helmet with incised horses, horseman and a groom (?) - perhaps Etruscan - from the collections of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Marche, Ancona.  From 'A cavallo del tempo exhibit' (2018).

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 A fragment of a terracotta relief with two chariot (?) horses- late 6th century southern Italy (then Magna Graecia).

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Finally, the ancient Greek armor,  a bronze belly guard  from theVII century Crete (the MET), from the same cache where the helmet was found. 

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Cheiron - periodical on equine history with many libre articles

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another link today, and what a link it may be - the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History titled 'Cheiron' offers many an interesting article.
The Vol 1 issue 1 - November 2021, - the publishers and editors have made all its content accessible for libre download.

 

So if you like your horse history or would like to learn some then do enjoy downloading and reading the articles.

Nota bene the name 'Cheiron' is a variation of the ancient Greek 'Chiron/Kheiron' - or a famous centaur of the ancient Greek mythology, teacher of Achilles. Also can peruse wiki gallery looking for centaurs.

Heracles/Hercules in this one below(from Napoli Archeo. Museum) :

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Etruscan Winged horses, Tarquinia

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again using the vast collections at Wiki Commons I would like to share with you some photos of the Etruscan Winged horses from Tarquinia, Italy.

First, the link to a fine article written by Giovanna Bagnasco Giani from the University of Milano. Also another article, in Italian, on the  analysis of discovered horse remains in the Etruscan 'Demoni Azzurri'( 'Blue Demons')tomb in Tarquinia.
nota bene the horses of the Demoni Azzurri tomb -


Terracotta horses from Tarquinia


 


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nota bene Apulian master painter known as the Painter of Lycrygus and his horses



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