From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 4211
Date: 2000-10-10
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From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:50 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: horses
> Hi Gerry
>
> Good to see you here. Thanks for the post from Alekseev. Just one
> thing
>
> Re
> > An early relief in Iraq which dates to
> > the third millennium BC, depicts the horse as a loading animal.
>
> There has been some discssion about this find elsewhere. Nowadays it
> is generally agreed that it was a domesticated onager, a species of
> donkey, now thought to be extinct.
>
> Regards
>
> John
Thanks John. Yes, the depiction in question is the Behistun relief at
Persepolis. Is this the one you are referring to? I have a question: how
can the observer of a relief differentiate betwen a horse and an onager?
Best wishes,
Gerry