Fig. 39.
BRONZE AGRAFE OR BELT PLATE.
Triskelion in spiral. Koban, Caucasus.
Chantre, “Le Caucase,” pl. 11, fig. 4.
Fig. 40.
SWASTIKA SIGNS FROM ASIA MINOR.
Waring, “Ceramic Art in Remote Ages,”
pl. 41, figs. 5 and 6.
Fig. 41.
BRAND FOR HORSES
IN CIRCASSIA.
Ogee Swastika,
tetraskelion.
Waring,
“Ceramic Art in
Remote Ages,”
pl. 42, fig. 20c.
Mr. Frederick Remington, the celebrated artist and literateur, has an article, “Cracker Cowboy in Florida,”[136] wherein he discourses of the forgery of brands on cattle in that country. One of his genuine brands is a circle with a small cross in the center. The forgery consists in elongating each arm of the cross and turning it with a scroll, forming an ogee Swastika ([fig. 13d]), which, curiously enough, is practically the same brand used on Circassian horses ([fig. 41]). Max Ohnefalsch-Richter[137] says that instruments of copper (audumbaroasih) are recommended in the Atharva-Veda to make the Swastika, which represents the figure 8; and thus he attempts to account for the use of that mark branded on the cows in India (supra, [p. 772]), on the horses in Circassia ([fig. 41]), and said to have been used in Arabia.