8/283 1.] The most common kind of yoke exhibits a double curve, so as to resemble a species of bow unstrung. 2.] Now and then a specimen is found very curiously complicated, being formed of a bar curved strongly at either end, and exhibiting along its course four other distinct curvatures having opposite to there apertures resembling eyes, with an upper and a lower eyelid. 3.] It has been suggested that this yoke belonged to a four-horse chariot, and that to each of the four eyes (_a a a a_) there was a steed attached; but, as no representation of a four-horse chariot has been found, this suggestion must be regarded as inadmissible. |