The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . g, the gazelle, the wild ass, and the lion. He is repre-sented as hunting in the j)arks attached to his palace,wherein lions were kept in cages, and turned loose forhim to kill. Now he hunts from his chariot; anon, onhorseback; again, on foot. Now he is attended by armedwarriors and protected by a shield, and dead and dyinglions lie scattered around him, transfixed with his ar-rows. In moments of greater daring, he is on foot insingle-handed combat with the lion, who is speared bythe kingly hunte
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . g, the gazelle, the wild ass, and the lion. He is repre-sented as hunting in the j)arks attached to his palace,wherein lions were kept in cages, and turned loose forhim to kill. Now he hunts from his chariot; anon, onhorseback; again, on foot. Now he is attended by armedwarriors and protected by a shield, and dead and dyinglions lie scattered around him, transfixed with his ar-rows. In moments of greater daring, he is on foot insingle-handed combat with the lion, who is speared bythe kingly hunter. The return from the hunt is cele-brated by music, and by the king pouring a libation onthe body of a dead lion. Although living in a coun-try where the seclusion of woman is a proverb, yet he sofar disregarded the conventional customs of society asto have his queen represented as being present at someroyal banquet. Nor did he fail to perpetuate the sad-der, grander details of war. The assault and the defense,the flight and the pursuit, the gathering of the spoils, 316 THRONES AND PALACES OF. the capture and crueltreatment of tlie prison-ers, are delineated witha masters hand. Coming to the thronein the year 668 , hewas ambitious to en-laro;e his dominions andsubdue all his pursued the fugitiveTirhakah from Mem-phis to Thebes, andcompelled Urdamane tofly in the same direc-tion. Having marchedin triumph along theSyrian coast, he crossedthe Taurus range, andpenetrated Asia Minorto a point never beforevisited by an Assyrianmonarch. Elam, Chal-dea, and Arabia felt thepower of his arms, andyielded to a warriorwhom it was madnessto oppose. But his fa-miliarity with blood inwar and in the chasemade him cruel andvindictive. He prac-ticed tortures, mutila-tions, and executions onthe prisoners he took BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 317 in battle, and perpetuated his modes of extreme pun-ishment in the bass-reliefs on his palace walls. There-on may be seen the helpless captive thrus
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