A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 186
t is impossible to believe that these wereever used as ordinary horse-shoes. The most plausible theoryis that they were hobbles, put on the feet of horses and otherquadrupeds to preventthem straying. The upperpart of this same Casecontains sets of spurs(No. 511), most of themprobably Roman.… … (502) Cat. of Bronzes, 2695; (503) ibid., 2696 ff. ; (504) ibid.,2520 ; (505) Cat. of Terracottas, C 612 ; (506) Cat. of Sculpt., III., 2310 ;(507) Cat. of Bronzes, 357 ; (508) Cf. Pernice, Griech. Pferdegeschirr, pll. ii.and iii. (56th Winckelmannsfestprogramm); (509) ibid., pi. i. and pp. 6-16…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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