Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

when put together with the missing parts restored we
obtain from them a wheel 7 feet 7 inches in diameter, with
six spokes instead of the usual four. Newton, Travels and
Discoveries, ii., p. 118 ; Hist. Disc, ii., p. 130.

It will be seen from the fragments employed in the
present restoration, by Sir C. Newton, that the wheel was
constructed in two halves. Mr. Murray is of oprinion that
the lower half may have been sculptured in relief on the
side of a block which supported the statues and floor of
the chariot.

1005. Fragments of the horses of the quadriga.

The following are the most important of the nume-
rous fragments belonging to the horses of the chariot
group:

1. Left (?) forefoot, near the edge of a piece of base, the
surface and left side of which are hammer-dressed. There
is a sinking of the base round the hoof. The leg belonging
to this foot has been recovered nearly to the knee by the
union of two fragments.

2. Eight (?) forefoot of colossal horse, on a hammer-
dressed base of which the thickness is 10 inches. This
hoof is broken off at the corona where it meets the hair.
It stands on the extreme verge of the base, which is
roughly dressed at the side. This fragment has been
placed with the group of chariot steps, No. 987. Pound
in Biliotti's excavation of 1866.

3. One-half of the support of a colossal horse, resting on
a base, hammer-dressed on the surface of the outer side.
This has been united to the other half by a joint. This
support presents a rectangular transverse section and
tapers upwards slightly (see Newton, Hist. Disc, pi. 25,
figs. 11, 12). The upper end has been broken away,
but it corresponded in dimensions with a rectangular
sinking cut under the belly of the colossal horse.

4. Hind leg of oolossal horse from hough to fetlock.