the dome-like tiara, and also by the place he occupiesin the inferior compartment of a relief on which, at the top,appear those lion-headed genii we have already figured (Vol. I,Fig. 6). In this last composition we have a foretaste of the centaur.Replace the lion by a horse and the likeness is… … VOL. II. On the Representations of Animals. 171 Another composite animal familiar to the imaginations bothof Greeks and Mesopotamians was the winged horse, the HellenicPegasus (Fig. 89). The example we have chosen is full ofgrace and nobility. We feel that the wings have given additionallightness…
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