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t and preserved in the Florentine Museum. It is believed to have been taken as a spoil from Scythia by the Egyptian conqueror. Scythian chariot. War-chariots do not appear in any Egyptian monuments prior to the eighteenth dynasty. The price of an Egyptian chariot in the time of Solomon was 600 shekels of silver, about $300; an immense price, considering the then value of money. The first horses and chariots are represented at Eileithyias at the time of Ames or Amosis, about 1510 B. C. They do not appear to have been used in Egypt during the time of the Osirtasens. Herodotus says that the Greeks learnt from the Libyans to yoke four horses to a chariot (iv. 189). It is, however, mentioned by Homer (Iliad, VIII. 185; Odyssey, XIII. 81). In the Assyrian chariots a spare horse was sometimes attached by a single inside trace to the chariot. The Lydians, it is said, had sometimes several poles to their chariots and horses between each. This resembles the modern shafts