. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. Lion let out of Trap. huntsman or attendant who, by raising a trap, opens thedoor from whence the lion issues. The wary motions of theanimal on leaving the cage are admirably portrayed in thesculptures. The king is seen hunting from his chariot, on horseback,and on foot. When in his chariot he is accompanied bythe charioteer and two armed warriors. In some bas-reliefshe is seen transfixing a lion with arrows, and dead anddying lions lie scattered around him. The various attitudes INTRODUC
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. Lion let out of Trap. huntsman or attendant who, by raising a trap, opens thedoor from whence the lion issues. The wary motions of theanimal on leaving the cage are admirably portrayed in thesculptures. The king is seen hunting from his chariot, on horseback,and on foot. When in his chariot he is accompanied bythe charioteer and two armed warriors. In some bas-reliefshe is seen transfixing a lion with arrows, and dead anddying lions lie scattered around him. The various attitudes INTRODUCTION. XXY of the beasts, whether wounded or in the last struggle, orstretched lifeless on the ground, are portrayed with singularvigour and truth to Wounded Lioness. Sometimes the lion is represented as springing upon thechariot, when the king receives the animal upon his spear,
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