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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2899995, member: 84744"]Thank you for giving me a reason to love my Hieron I tet's headless-horse obverse: a clear harness!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]698342[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My two clearest harnesses on RRs are on a denarius of T. Manlius Mancinus, Ap. Claudius Pulcher, & Q. Urbinius (110 BC), and a Sulla denarius (82 BC):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]698344[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]698345[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the stirrup thing is debatable, at least timing-wise. The earliest stirrups were simple leather loops, and the later, more effective type incorporates a hard bar under the instep. I (vaguely) recall that it's pretty uncertain when these were transmitted west. Also, they probably originated on the steppes rather than in China proper. Innovations in horse-drawn wheeled vehicles may have originated on the steppes also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2899995, member: 84744"]Thank you for giving me a reason to love my Hieron I tet's headless-horse obverse: a clear harness! [ATTACH=full]698342[/ATTACH] My two clearest harnesses on RRs are on a denarius of T. Manlius Mancinus, Ap. Claudius Pulcher, & Q. Urbinius (110 BC), and a Sulla denarius (82 BC): [ATTACH=full]698344[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]698345[/ATTACH] I think the stirrup thing is debatable, at least timing-wise. The earliest stirrups were simple leather loops, and the later, more effective type incorporates a hard bar under the instep. I (vaguely) recall that it's pretty uncertain when these were transmitted west. Also, they probably originated on the steppes rather than in China proper. Innovations in horse-drawn wheeled vehicles may have originated on the steppes also.[/QUOTE]
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