Cheiron - ancient Egyptian [chariot]horse training

 Salvete Omnes,

Cheiron Journal Yt channel had their presentations and discussion on the ancient (Bronze Age - New Kingdom ) Egypt and their horse training and their chariotry.

During this session Lonneke Delpeut introduced the image of horse desensitizing from the Ramses/Ramasses III temple of Medinet Habu. 

Later this University of Vienna scholar made available her own article on the relief and its implication- Academia.edu. 

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The later part of the presentation dr Delpuet showed the discovered and reconstructed horse stables at the Ramses/Ramesses II's capital city of Pi-Ramesses(Qantir, Egypt). Interesting aspect of the stable construction was the creation and use of horse urine containers, presumably once collected the urine was applied in the leather tanneries process ( urine still can be used for tanning processes today). The stables had access to the river, allowing for washing and watering. Fascinating subject on many levels.

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Presentation from the exhibit -The Horses of the Pharao 

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the second lecturer was Miriam Bibby who presented more material on the horse training within the context of chariotry. Eg we learn the construction of the chariot horse harness from the royal depictions, as well as the names of the Ramses II's chariot horses at Kadesh - Victory-in-Thebes and Mut-is-Content. 

This part of the lecture is rich in iconography and its context. 

After watching it I have a feeling that the panel is a bit less informed on the military of the New Kingdom Egypt than on horses themselves.

The final, pre-recorded presentation, by Alberto (I missed his last name) at the end of the 2h,  - on the alleged horse riding in ancient Egypt in the 2nd millennium, circa 1h 44 min into the video,  - is not my favorite but for the iconography included and worth studying

enjoy the presentation

Valete

Ancient Egypt, Ramses II & lasso, rope, lariat.

 Salvete Omnes,

there is a word in the American English for a  long rope with a running noose used to capture cattle or horses that comes from Spanish language.
Namely, it is lasso, which comes from a Spanish noun: el lazo; this lariat, lasso, or rope with a noose (arkan in Polish) used for lassoing animals and people  is a very ancient device, invented many thousands years ago by the Stone Age hunters. 

Now,  we will quickly time travel to the ancient Egypt, where in one of their temples (started by pharaoh Seti I and completed by his son Ramses II)  at Abydos there is so called Corridor of the Bull- 

In ancient Egypt the sinewy lasso had cosmic implication - eg this article explains some aspects of the religious meanings of a lariat.

but this New Kingdom imagery was just a continuing tradition and use from the oldest Egypt dynastic periods - the Old Kingdom.
There is the so called mastaba of Akhmerutnisut (5th Dynasty, 2494-2345BC) where the tomb sponsor is depicted as a hunter wielding a lasso (more details in Ines Torres'  article). While in the mastaba of Raemkai (MET) 'prince' is hunting gazelles with a lasso.

Nota bene, there are tomb imagery showing rope making (plant fibers and leather, eg this one) , while in this article by Emily Teeter you can learn about the rope making, techniques and its terminology in the ancient Egypt. 

Unfortunately the book from Cambridge Univ. Press - The Material World of Ancient Egypt, does not have anything about lasso and its use in the ancient Egypt - the rope chapter is by far so much weaker than any of the articles listed above - nor it mentions the use of rope in warfare,  hunting, war and animal husbandry (but for animal halters and fishing).. 

Valete

Chariots of the Kingdom of Two Lands

Salvete Omnes,
Spring is here, Baroque horses and Polish winged hussars can wait for another day, so today we are traveling to the New Kingdom of Two Lands or Aegyptus ( the ancient Greek name for the kingdom of the Nile valley, used in Odyssey by Homer,  orAigyptos - Αἴγυπτος ).
these energetic ancient Hellenes had settled as traders and mercenary soldiers in Egypt in Late Bronze Age/early Iron Age, and eventually after the Macedonian conquest of the Achaemenid satrapy of Egypt they had ruled the land of the Nile for centuries  before the Octavian's Roman legions came and put an end to the Macedonian dynasty and ushered in 6 centuries of Roman rule, eventually the conversion to Christianity and the birth of Coptic  nation  ( presently in danger of being obliterated in post-1952  Republic of Egypt that is mostly Arabic and Islamic in culture and religion; nota bene I know quite of few Copts in the US and Canada and hear  their stories).
Just a little post to signal my interest (and hopefully yours, dear traveler) in the beauty of the chariot horse and the chariot itself, instruments of war from before.
so here below we have a few images of great warrior  pharaoh of the XIX Dynasty  Ramses II (who was a fair-haired or reddish-blond man, as his surviving mummy shows  ) war exploits and leadership,

always most resplendent and bellicose when riding in his chariot, with his trusted bows and arrows in hand, javelins and deadly  khopesh sword resting near.

also this beauty of sumptuous art, for it is a ring with chariot horses from Ramses II (held at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France)

enjoy
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all images are from Wiki Commons