A large number of images on ancient friezes, pottery, and amphorae show this breed as a companion to women and children.

Individual horses and their owners play an essential, allegorical role in the plot, like horses on some ancient frieze, bearing their riders into a timeless past.

Several of the entablatures there were also based upon an ancient frieze from Diocletian's Roman Baths.

But on Tuesday, a newly renovated altar began to emerge, as museum officials unveiled a third of the ancient Hellenic frieze.

But she was amazed at its resemblance to small horses depicted on ancient Persian friezes and seals-animals long thought extinct.

Something in their unity of posture, the bent shoulders, the bowed heads, was reminiscent of figures in an ancient frieze.

Their faces were those of mencome to life out of some ancient Assyrian frieze, narrow,hook-nosed, full-lipped.

Yet they kept interrupting their exertions to assume heroic poses that might have come from an ancient frieze.

Plaques depicting ancient friezes, or masks to hang on walls are also extremely popular, as are Mycenaean helmets.

Taking aim, they posed like archers in an ancient frieze, squinting up at the declining sun.