Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date

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From: george knysh

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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:24 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date

--- pielewe <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

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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.)

 

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Patrick:

 

I have also looked at those depictions, and it is not as "clear" to me that, instead of asses, horses are being depicted.

 

I think we might also want to pause to consider the Sumerian terminology for 'horse': KUR ANŠE, ('mountain-ass').

 

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