11-23-2007, 10:54 AM
Quote:Have you all seen this?
http://seneca.uab.es/antiguitat/SCYTHIA ... celona.pdf includes an abstract of Vinogradov, "A Wooden Saddle Core of the Latter Half of the 4th c. B.C. from Panticapaeum".
I posted about this in an earlier thread when I found a mention of the paper, but I didn't find the abstract itself. Thanks for posting it.
Interestingly, the recent excavation of the kurgan of a warrior in the Mongolian part of the Altai mountains revealed two horses with the wooden portions of their saddles preserved. The burial dates to the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd C. BC. The warrior wore a large fur coat with short trousers (reaching to the knee) and tall felt boots and was buried with a wicker shield, a dagger in a wooden scabbard, a perfectly preserved sagaris, and a complete bow with gorytus and arrows (the first bow found in a Pazyryk burial). He was buried with two horses, both of which had saddles with wooden pommel and cantle. The picture I've seen of it is unfortunately unclear, but the written description of the excavation stated that the horses had two different kinds of saddles. The word used to describe the style was "Hunno-Sarmatian," and the author considered it a precursor to later styles of saddles.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
