[145] We may also quote the following monuments as examples of Assyrian statues: 1. The fragment of a seated statue found at Kaleh-Shergat, which we figure on page 127 (LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. pp. 51–52). 2. The head of a statue of Istar, discovered at Kouyundjik (SMITH, _Assyrian Discoveries_, pp. 248 and 430). This head is about nine inches high. 3. Fragment of a colossal statue of shelly limestone, found in the same place by the same explorer (_ibid._ p. 430). It consists only of a part of the left shoulder. There is an inscription on the back tracing the descent of Assurbanipal from Sargon. [146] _Art in Ancient Egypt_, vol. ii. pp. 284–288; vol. i. fig. 173, and vol. ii. fig. 240. [147] E. GUILLAUME, in his _Considérations sur les Principes de l’Histoire du Bas-relief_, which was read at the annual public meeting of the five Academies in Paris on the 14th August, 1866, (Didot, 4to.). [148] Vol. I. page 266. [149] In this particular, the two large bulls from Khorsabad in the British Museum are better placed than the pair in the Louvre. Their position at the entrance to the Khorsabad Transept (?), gives an exact idea of their original arrangement.--ED. [150] It must not be thought, however, that its employment was universal. In the palace of Sennacherib, at Kouyundjik, and in one of the palaces at Nimroud, the bulls had only four legs. [151] See PERROT and GUILLAUME, _Expédition archéologique de la Galatie_, vol. i. pp. 345, 346, and vol. ii. plate 57. [152] This contrivance may also be seen on the small limestone stele, covered with writing, which represents Assurbanipal carrying a basket on his head, and preparing to make an offering to the gods (British Museum, Assyrian Side Room). [153] Look for instance at the last figure but one, on the right, in PLACE, vol. iii. plate 60, fig. 4. It is that of a man turning to speak to one who follows him. The feet are turned in one direction, and the head in one diametrically opposite to it. Nothing more ungraceful could be conceived. [154] _Art in Ancient Egypt_, vol. i. fig. 98; vol. ii. figs. 250, 254, 255, &c. [155] _Ibid._ p. 294. [156] _Art in Ancient Egypt_, vol. ii. pp. 185–196, plates ix. x. xi. and figs. 172, 173, 174, 178, 183, 198, 199, 205, 208, 213, 214, 215, 216, 223, &c. [157] _Ibid._ figs. 273–275. [158] _Ibid._ p. 192. [159] An almost unique exception to this rule occurs in those bas-reliefs in the British Museum which represent the great hunts of Assurbanipal. We there see a company of beardless individuals marching, bare-headed, dressed in a short tunic and armed with lance and buckler. But this is an apparent rather than a real exception. The chase is not war. These men are not soldiers, but attendants on the hunt, an inferior kind of _shikarrie_. In the battle pieces we sometimes see the eunuchs attached to the king’s person fighting at his elbow.