From: george knysh
Message: 43612
Date: 2006-02-28
>cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
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> From: george knysh<mailto:gknysh@...>
> To:
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>****GK: They sure look like "mountain asses" to me and
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date
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> --- pielewe
> <wrvermeer@...<mailto:wrvermeer@...>>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> As a matter of fact, we know that such chariots
> were
> in use there at least 1,000 years earlier, as
> evidenced by the royal seals (with horses drawing
> the
> chariots clearly depicted) discovered at Ur and
> Kish,
> reliably radiocarbondated to ca. 2600 BCE (Cf. the
> reproductions in M.V. Gorelik, "Boievi kolesnitsi
> Perednogo Vostoka III-II tis. do n.e", in
> Drevniaia
> Anatoliia, "Nauka":Moscow, 1985, pp. 183-202.)
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> I have also looked at those depictions, and it is
> not as "clear" to me that, instead of asses, horses
> are being depicted.