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?2 NATURAL HISTORY
Chigi horses, has now finally disappeared.1 There is more of the old-
fashioned Cretan style about the horses of the crater no. 779.
e f
Fig. 18. a-d, from nos. 520, 496, 504; e, from the plastic vase pi. 44, 5; f, from no. 1196.
An interesting characteristic of these early Corinthian and Protocorinthian
horses is that they stand, or rather walk, with all four feet planted on the
ground.2 This position is, of course, impossible in nature, and represents a
1 The chariot-horses are more Cretan-looking corinthian Johansen pis. 22, 1; 23,1 b); this scheme
than the others: but the scheme of several of the is never found on Corinthian or Attic b. f. vases,
riders, as Johansen remarks, is still characteristically 2 This was first pointed out by v. Lieres, Zur
Cretan (cf. Johansen fig. in, and the early Proto- Pferdedarstellung p. 15.
Chigi horses, has now finally disappeared.1 There is more of the old-
fashioned Cretan style about the horses of the crater no. 779.
e f
Fig. 18. a-d, from nos. 520, 496, 504; e, from the plastic vase pi. 44, 5; f, from no. 1196.
An interesting characteristic of these early Corinthian and Protocorinthian
horses is that they stand, or rather walk, with all four feet planted on the
ground.2 This position is, of course, impossible in nature, and represents a
1 The chariot-horses are more Cretan-looking corinthian Johansen pis. 22, 1; 23,1 b); this scheme
than the others: but the scheme of several of the is never found on Corinthian or Attic b. f. vases,
riders, as Johansen remarks, is still characteristically 2 This was first pointed out by v. Lieres, Zur
Cretan (cf. Johansen fig. in, and the early Proto- Pferdedarstellung p. 15.