The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia (1862) (14597361217)

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Title: The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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293 Dog modelled in clay, from the p.-ilace of Asshur-bani-pal, Koj-unjik,No. II.
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Doff in relief, on a clay tablet. 294 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. II. Cows, oxen, sheep, and goats are frequent; butthey are foreign rather than Assyrian, since theyonly occur among the spoil taken from conqueredcountries. The dog is frequent on the later sculp-tures ; and has been found modelled in clay, and alsorepresented in relief on a clay tablet. Their characteris that of a large mastiff or hound, and there is abun-dant evidence that they were employed in hunting.^ If the Assyrians domesticated any bird, it wouldseem to have been the duck. Models of the duck are common, and seem gene-rally to have been usedfor weights.^ The birdis ordinarily representedwith its head turned uponits back, the attitude ofthe domestic duck when Assyrian Duck (Nimrud). aslcep. The AsSyrianS seem to have had artificial ponds or stews, which arealways represented as full of fish, but the forms areconventional, as has been already observed/ Con-sidering the size to which the carp and barbelactually grow