Herodotus, by the Satrapof Babylon. His pack was so numerous that it took the revenuesof four large villages to support it.2 Similar subjects were represented upon other tablets of thesame origin. One of them shows a lion about to devour a bulland disturbed bv a man brandishing a mace. Nothing… … Fig. 69.—Terra-cotta tablet. British Museum. Height 3f inches. We may also mention a cylinder which, from its style, M.Menant does not hesitate to ascribe to the first Chaldseanmonarchy. It represents two oxen in a field of wheat. Thelatter, by a convention that also found favour with the Greeks,is…
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