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has a sword also slung on his left side1; and he sometimes2 carries
a four-spoked wheel, thrusting his left hand between two of its

Fig. 38-

(E. Wagner in the Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1882 i. 39, F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 17, 31, 38,
43, 44, 46, 49 fig. = my fig. 37). The rider wore a smooth tunica or jerkin, and in his
right hand carried a spear, the end of which is visible against his horse. The crouching
figure has large staring eyes and no beard : leaning on elbows and chin, he supported the
horse's hoofs with his hands.

1 So in the group found at Butterstadt near Hanau (F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 5, 33).

2 F. Hertlein op. cit. p. 33 'Das merkwtirdigste Attribut des Reiters ist entschieden
das vierspeichige Rad. Es hat sich mehreremal gefunden, an weit entfernten Orten, in
Butterstadt bei Hanau [id. p. 5], in Les Ronchers, Depart. Meuse [id. p. 26], in Meaux,
Depart. Seine et Marne [id. p. 27], und wohl auch an dem Bruchstiick von Zabern IV
[ib. p. 9]... Wir werden dem Rad wieder begegnen auf Viergbttersteinen [id. pp. 109
with n. 3, 148 Niederwiirzbach, Amt Zweibriicken; Dunzweiler, Ami Homburg; Theley,
Kreis Ottweiler].' On the reliefs from Niederwiirzbach and Dunzweiler see Haug in the
Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1891 x. 48 f. nos. 94, 95. I figure that from Theley (supra i.
289 n. 1 wrongly called 'an altar') after F. Hettner Die romischen Steindenkmaler des