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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24823648, member: 128351&quot;]The representation of fallen war horses is relatively rare in ancient iconography. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can find the same kind of triumphal image in Sassanid Persian art. On this relief from Naqsh-i Rostam the Sassanid king Hormizd II (303-309) is dismounting an enemy (perhaps Papak, king of Armenia). I think the Roman die-cutters of 348, 40 years later, drew inspiration from Persian iconography to compose the fallen horseman reverse type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589356[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My favourite image of this theme is early medieval. It is this segment of the Bayeux Tapestry representing a French cavalry charge against an English entrenchment during the battle of Hastings. The Latin legend says <i>Hic ceciderunt simul Angli et Franci in prelio</i> : Here English and French fell together in combat. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589355[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A similar tragedy happened in Waterloo, when during Ney&#039;s great cavalry charge the first ranks of cuirassiers tumbled into the sunken road on the ridge, and the following ones just passed on their bodies ... (as represented in the 1970 Russian movie Waterloo, by Sergei Bondartchouk)</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]xNGMwvsc4fA[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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