Equestrian Relief From Ptolemais and The Nisean Horse
2024, 62, Numer 1
Faculty of History, University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
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Drawing on the analysis of the proportions of the rider and horse shown on the Hellenistic relief found at the so-called ‘House of Leukaktios’, Ptolemais, Libya, this study supports the hypothesis that the aforementioned figure depicts a rare breed of exceptionally large horses – the Nisean chargers from the ancient Nisa in the Median Plain. The author argues that the rider shown on the relief performs a levade, an equestrian movement described in detail by Xenophon. As only exceptionally large horses were able to perform the levade properly, and only the Seleucid dynasty had unrestricted access to such animals, the horse depicted on the relief in question must have arrived in Egypt as a result of a diplomatic contact. The history of relations between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties suggests that it would have occurred when the future Egyptian king, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, governed Cyrenaica. If this was the case, the Ptolemais relief would have been sculpted before 145 BC.
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