The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . 488 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. Arm-chair or throne (Khorsab;id). figures, apparently representations of the king, below which was the war-horse of the monarch,caparisoned as for bat-tle.^ Another throneof the same monarchshad two large and foursmall figures of menat the side, while theback was supported oneither side by a humanfigure of superior di-mensions.® The use ofchairs with high backs,like these, was appa-rently confined to the monarc
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . 488 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. Arm-chair or throne (Khorsab;id). figures, apparently representations of the king, below which was the war-horse of the monarch,caparisoned as for bat-tle.^ Another throneof the same monarchshad two large and foursmall figures of menat the side, while theback was supported oneither side by a humanfigure of superior di-mensions.® The use ofchairs with high backs,like these, was appa-rently confined to the monarchs. Persons of less exalted rank were content to sit on seats whichwere either stools, orchairs, with a low back .« _ ^ level with the arms. Seats of this kind,whether thrones orchairs, were no doubtconstructed mainly ofwood. The ornamentalwork may, however,have been of bronze, Assyrian ornamented seat (]{horsabad). Cltner CaSt lUtO tllC necessary shape, orwrought into it by the hammer. The animal heads at
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