The Mitanni military aristocracy depended heavily on well-trained horses to draw their chariots. This 15mm camp depicts several Mitanni trainers putting their horses through conditioning drills in order to support the resupply needs of the chariot forces.
The idea for this camp came from a remarkable clay tablet, unearthed at Hattusa in 1907, that lists a 214-day training regimen for horses. The author was named Kikkuli, a Hurrian horse trainer from the land of Mitanni. One instruction for his training program is to condition the horses at the trot and canter for long periods without being harnessed to the chariot. Thus we see pairs of horses in this camp cantering past their instructors, who are under the watchful eye of Kikkuli himself.
The first two pairs are proceeding as planned, but the third pair have spooked at the sight of a little rabbit in the grass. They balk and flee with their eyes wide open in terror.
Their hapless trainer kneels down and suffers the righteous anger of Kikkuli.
The figures are from Old Glory, Essex, and I think Corvus Belli for the Kikkuli figure. The horses are Eureka 18mm Cossack ponies. The rabbit is sculpted from Green Stuff.
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