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 398 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. ,5 "So projection from the field, enframed by a flat border. On one of these fragments (Fig. 281) are three horsemen. The animals are of stout breed ; their bridles are adorned by embroidery 'and top- knots. The riders sit their animals well ; they are clad in a short tunic reaching nearly to the knee ; a mantle seems to be rolled across the shoulder. All carry a spear in their left hand, whilst on the back of one of them is some object re- sembling a quiver. The heads are terribly mutilated, but helmets do not seem to have been worn. We have perhaps here a repre- sentation of the famous horsemen whom Cyrus de- feated. The work shows that effort was made to in- troduce variety. On the other hand, the deer, to the number of three, figured on the other slab are uni- form (Fig. 282). They are fairly well drawn, with their heads down, grazing in a meadow. They recall those rows of animals depicted on Greek archaic vases. These two fragments may have been part of a hunt- ing-scene which decorated the walls of one of the funereal chambers. The sculptor's hand is already very skilful, especially in the delineation of the animals. But the repetition of the same figures, which only differ from each other in trifling details, or are pre cisely alike, savours of ar- chaism. Il is quite pos-