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barbaric head and native dress (fig. 35)'. Once he appears as driver
F'g- 34-
of a dashing two-horse chariot, the Hkeness to lupiter being pronounced
(fig. 36)-. By way of offensive armour the rider brandishes
zu Trier Trier 1893 p. 23 f. no. 32 with fig. = my fig. 34, Reinach Ri>p. Stat. ii. 529
no. 5, F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 21 f., 30 n. i, 33 f., 35, 43, 45, Esperandieu Bas-reliefs de
la Cattle Rom. vi. 4245. no. 5246 with two photographic cuts). The rider wears tunica,
lorica, pahidamentiim : his left hand held the reins, his right was raised. The crouching
figure grins with open mouth : his left hand held the left forefoot of the horse ; his right
probably grasped a club (a suitable fragment was found), on which rested the right hoof
of the horse.
^ Group in yellowish grey sandstone (maximum height o'yS), found at Ehrang in
1890 and now in the Museum at Treves (F. Hettner in the Korrespondenzblatt der
Westdeutschen Zeitschrift 1891 x. 73 f. with fig., id. Die roniischen Steindenkmdler des
Provinziabmiseums zii Trier Trier 1893 p. 21 f. no. 31 with fig. = my fig. 35, Reinach
Rep. Stat. ii. 528 no. 5; F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 21, 30 with n. i, 32, 34, 35, 42, 43,
Esperandieu Bas-reliefs de la Gaule Rom. vi. 412 ff. no. 5233 with photographic cuts).
The rider wears a close-fitting jacket, which has a seam on the right side and reaches to
his hips (edge visible in good light) ; whether it was sleeved or not is uncertain. His belt
has a round disk at the back. His left hand held the reins; his right, connected with his
head by a clumsy support, probably held a thunderbolt, not a spear (see F. Hertlein
op. cit. p. 32). The horse has a saddle with pommels, back, saddle-cloth, etc. The
crouching figure, a young and beardless male, bears the weight on his hunched shoulders.
This group was found together with a Viergdtterstein and other fragments in the same
sandstone of a 'Jupiter-column' (F. Hettner in the Korrespondenzblatt der Westdeittschen
Zeitschrift 1891 x. 75 ff., id. Die roniischen Sleitidenkmdler des Provinzialmiiseums zu
Trier Trier 1893 p. 18 ff. nos. 27— 30, Haug in the Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1891 x. 136
no. 159 Ehrang, F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 21, 94, 95),
difference in style— it may have belonged.
to which— despite the obvious
^ Group in stone (plinth o"65'" long, o"45'" broad, o"09"' thick; driver ros"" high),
found at Weissenhof near Besigheim in 1897 and now in the Lapidarium at Stuttgart
(G. .Sixt in the Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1897 xvi. ,293—296 with two figs, of which the