The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Assyrian goat and sheep (Koyunjik). Fig. Vine trained on a lir (?), from the North Palace, Koyunjik. CH. VII.] WAR-CHARIOTS. 243 horses. They seem to have had but a single Wherethree horses were used, one must therefore have been attachedmerely by a rope or thong, like the side horses of the Greeks,and can scarcely have been of much service for drawing the ve-hicle. He seems rightly regarded as
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Assyrian goat and sheep (Koyunjik). Fig. Vine trained on a lir (?), from the North Palace, Koyunjik. CH. VII.] WAR-CHARIOTS. 243 horses. They seem to have had but a single Wherethree horses were used, one must therefore have been attachedmerely by a rope or thong, like the side horses of the Greeks,and can scarcely have been of much service for drawing the ve-hicle. He seems rightly regarded as a supernumerary, in-tended to take the place of one of the others, should either bedisabled by a wound or accident.^ It is not easy to determinefrom the sculptures how the two draught horses were attachedto the pole. Where chariots are represented without horses, wefind indeed that they have always a cross-bar or yoke; * butwhere horses are repiesented in the act of drawing a chariot,the cross-bar commonly disappears altogether. It would seemthat the Assyrian artists, despairing of their ability to repre-sent the yoke properly when it was presented to the eye end-wise, preferred, for the most part, suppressing it wholly torende
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