. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ht with the fists ; or a lion, perhaps, in quest of a meal surprisesand kills one of the bulls:4 the shepherd runs up, his axe in his hand, 1 Menant, Recherches sur la Glyptique orientale, vol. i. pp. 205-210. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the terra-cotta plaques discovered by Loftus, Travels andResearches in Chaldxa and Susiana, p. 257. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldaean intaglio reproduced in Lajard, Introduction àlhistoire des Mystères de Mithra, pl. xli., No. 5 ; cf. Menant, op. cit., vol. i. pp. 205, 206. Anothercylinder of th
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ht with the fists ; or a lion, perhaps, in quest of a meal surprisesand kills one of the bulls:4 the shepherd runs up, his axe in his hand, 1 Menant, Recherches sur la Glyptique orientale, vol. i. pp. 205-210. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the terra-cotta plaques discovered by Loftus, Travels andResearches in Chaldxa and Susiana, p. 257. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Chaldaean intaglio reproduced in Lajard, Introduction àlhistoire des Mystères de Mithra, pl. xli., No. 5 ; cf. Menant, op. cit., vol. i. pp. 205, 206. Anothercylinder of the same kind is reproduced at p. 699 of the present work ; it represents Etana arising toheaven by the aid of his friend the eagle, while the pastoral scene below resembles in nearly allparticulars that given above. * See Menant, Recherches sur la Glyptique orientale, vol. i. p. 207, where will be found theTeproduction of a cylinder from the Luynes collection, containing a representation of a bull attackedby a lion. 768 CHALD2EAN to contend bravely with the marauder for the possession of his beast. The shepherd was accustomed toprovide himself with assist-ance in the shape of enor-mous dogs, who had no morehesitation in attacking beastsof prey than they had inpursuing game. In thesecombats the natural courageof the shepherd was stimu-lated by interest : for he waspersonally responsible for thesafety of his flock, and if a FIGHT WITH A LION. J lion should find an entranceinto one of the enclosures, its guardian was mulcted out of his wages of a sumequivalent to the damage aris-ing from his Fish-ing was not so much a pastime /as a source of livelihood ; forfish occupied a high place in tfjthe bill of fare of the common ■folk. Caught by the line, net,or trap, it was dried in the sun,smoked, or The chasewas essentially the pastime ofthe great noble—the pursuit of Pthe lion and the bear in thewooded covers or the marshythickets of the river-
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