In my research for ‘Hittites, Horses and Corpses’ I came across these, um, sculptures from about 1000 BCE. These Hittites certainly seemed to ‘feel one’ with their horses:
And for my favourite, since he’s looking a little, well, goggle-eyed:
17 November, 2009
Hittites and their horses
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18 November, 2009 at 2:34 am
The official line is that it is two people riding the horse, but like texts interpretations may of course vary …