Applique for horse ammo

A bearded rider, at a gallop to the left, with a spear. In the upper right corner is the bearded male head facing down. In scientific literature, it is interpreted as a human sacrifice. The downward facing head usually conveys the relationship with the world of the dead. The Hellenic myth of the tragic death of Orpheus tells how, after being torn by Thracian women, his head swam to Lesbos Island and was buried in a cave where Dionysus worshiped from the oldest times. In the cave, the head gave predictions during the day and at night, until Apollo closed the oracle due to his zeal. It is possible that the bearded male head is marked by the sacred space of the anthropodemon and the god Dionysus, who in Thrace is the patron saint of mantics (divinatory art). Elka Penkova