Editing Quadriga (section)

== Variations ==
Though ''quadrigae'' were usually drawn by horses, occasionally, other animals or mythological creatures were employed in spectacles and in art. Elephants were sometimes used to draw ''quadrigae'' in the [[Roman imperial period (chronology)|Roman imperial period]], and more frequently elephant ''quadrigae'' were depicted on coins and other official images. In art and sculpture, ''quadrigae'' ridden in by the gods were appropriate to their characters; Neptune's ''quadriga'' was drawn, for example, by [[Hippocampus (mythology)|hippocampi]] (mythological sea-horses).
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File:Bardo(js)052.jpg|The triumph of [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]] and [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] in a ''quadriga'' drawn by hippocampi in a mosaic from [[Utica, Tunisia|Utica]] in [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]], [[Bardo National Museum (Tunis)|Bardo National Museum]]
File:Venus sur un char tiré par des élpéhants - Pompéi - Atelier des Feutriers.jpg|[[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] riding in a ''quadriga'' drawn by elephants, 1st-century AD fresco from [[Pompeii]]
File:Medaglione di diocleziano e massimiano ercole, oro, con quadriga di elefanti, soldati e vittoria.JPG|Medallion of the co-''augusti'' [[Diocletian]] and [[Maximian]] ({{Reign|285|305}}) riding in a ''quadriga'' drawn by elephants and crowned by [[Victoria (mythology)|Victory]]
File:9595 - Milano - Museo archeologico - Patera di Parabiago - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 13 Mar 2012.jpg|[[Cybele]] and [[Attis]] riding on a ''quadriga'' drawn by lions on the 4th-century [[Parabiago plate]], [[Archaeological Museum of Milan]]
File:Sculpture Kurfürstendamm 24 (Charl) Buddy Bär 10 Jahre Neues Kranzler Eck.jpg|[[Buddy Bear|Buddy Bear ''Quadriga'']] in Berlin, [[Kurfürstendamm|Kurfürstendamm 21]]
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