property assignment · pa_motif_trojan_horse_possible_natural_disaster_memory
pa_motif_trojan_horse_possible_natural_disaster_memory
One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: scholarly hypothesis. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Research description
One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports assignment
The Earthquake-Horse — L. A. Mackay (1946)One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.
- supports · supports assignment
Poseidon’s Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean — Amos Nur, Eric H. Cline (2000)One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.
- supports · supports assignment
Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes — Lauren Murphy (2017)One interpretation connects the horse motif with earthquake symbolism and an earthquake-related destruction at Troy.