The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . is founddifficult to keep them alive; and they have never,apparently, been domesticated. The Arabs usuallykill them and eat their flesh. ^ Heerens Asiatic Nations, vol. 132, E. T. ® Anab. i. 5, § 2. Xenophouspeaks of them as numerous in hisday. He calls them the most common animal for some distancebelow the Khahour. Layard, Nin. and its Remains,vol. i. pp. 323, 324; Nin. and 270; Ainswortli, Travels, p. 77. Chap. If. THE WILD ASS. 281
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . is founddifficult to keep them alive; and they have never,apparently, been domesticated. The Arabs usuallykill them and eat their flesh. ^ Heerens Asiatic Nations, vol. 132, E. T. ® Anab. i. 5, § 2. Xenophouspeaks of them as numerous in hisday. He calls them the most common animal for some distancebelow the Khahour. Layard, Nin. and its Remains,vol. i. pp. 323, 324; Nin. and 270; Ainswortli, Travels, p. 77. Chap. If. THE WILD ASS. 281 It is probable that all these animals, and someothers, inhabited Assyria during the time of theEmpire. Lions of two kinds, with and withoutmanes, abound in the sculptures, the former, whichdo not now exist in Assyria, being the more are represented with a skill and a truth whichshows the Assyrian sculptor to have been familiarnot only with their forms and proportions, but withtheir natural mode of life, their haunts, and leopard is far less often depicted, but appearssometimes in the ornamentation of utensils, and is. Leopard, from Nimrud. frequently mentioned in the inscriptions. The wildass is a favourite subject with the sculptors of thelater Empire, and is represented with great spirit.
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