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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria (1884)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 186

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z o wo < O o On the Representations of Animals. 155 Elsewhere we find the hon cautiously emerging from a stoutly-built timber cage (Fig. 78). He has been captured in a netor snare and shut up in this narrow prison until the day of somegreat hunt.^ When that arrives the door is raised at a… … Fig. 77.—Lion nnd lioness in a park. F.rili^h ^[useuui. hardly be free from danger but that the lion is too pleased to findhimself at liberty to look behind him. ^ On the subject of these great hunts and their arrangements, see Rawlinson,TAe Five Great Monarchies, voL i. pp. 505-512. The custom is…

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