Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 24
.3 Therhinoceros is called in the inscrip-tion an ox of the river Sakeya,and Kennedy criticises its repre-sentation as very ugly and ill-drawn. Indeed, it is no more andno less than a bull, and, as far asnatural truth is concerned, much in-ferior to the Chinese sketches. Iteven has cloven… … n 1 After O. Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, Vol. I, p. 386 (Leipzig, 1909). 2 The Early Commerce of Babylon with India (Journal R. As. Soc, 1898, p. 259). 3 According to J. Marquart (Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Eran, II,p. ioi, Leipzig, 1905), who discusses the same passage in the inscription…
Sculpture -- China · Arms and armor, Chinese · China -- Antiquities
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