[160] We have no reason to believe that the Egyptian fashion of wearing wigs obtained in Assyria (LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. pp. 327, 378). HERODOTUS tells us that in his time the Chaldæans wore long hair (i. 195). [161] This is the opinion of M. LENORMANT (_Gazette des Beaux Arts_, vol. xxv. pp. 218–225), and M. MÉNANT has upheld the same thesis in a paper read before the Académie des Inscriptions (_Remarques sur des Portraits des Rois Assyro-Chaldéens_, in the _Comptes Rendus_ for 1881, pp. 254–267). [162] On this point again I regret to be unable to agree with M. MÉNANT; I am unable to perceive any of the differences of which he speaks (see p. 258 of his paper). [163] RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. ii. p. 500. [164] Upon the discovery of these figures and their nature, see LAYARD, _Discoveries_, p. 230. [165] Layard, _Nineveh_, vol. i. pp. 126–127. The English explorer himself remarks in speaking of this relief, that the features of the men show nothing of the special type which the artist endeavoured to suggest by this clumsy expedient. [166] This is what M. MÉNANT sees in this Babylonian stele: “It represents a race with a short, thickset body, a short neck buried between the shoulders, a flat nose and thick lips” (p. 259 of his paper). [167] LAYARD, _Discoveries_, p. 537. [168] HERODOTUS, i. 192. [169] LOFTUS gives a poor reproduction of this monument, which he found at Sinkara (_Travels_, &c., p. 258). We have not reproduced it, because it is in much worse condition than the terra-cotta dog. [170] HERODOTUS, i. 193. [171] RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. p. 234. Upon each of these figures appears the dog’s name, which always bears some relation to the qualities he displayed in the performance of his duties. [172] This relief is figured in RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. p. 356. [173] W. HOUGHTON, _On the Mammalia of the Assyrian Sculptures_ in the _Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, vol. v. pp. 33–64, and 579–583. [174] We are tempted to believe that these animals were exterminated before the days of the Sargonids by the unrelenting pursuit to which they were subjected; they are not to be found in the pictures of Assurbanipal’s hunts. On the other hand, in the palace of Assurnazirpal, which dates from two centuries earlier, they were figured with peculiar insistence and in great detail (LAYARD, _Monuments_, first series, plates 11, 12, 32, 43–44, 46, 48 and 49). [175] RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. p. 351; LAYARD, _Monuments_, first series, plate 58. Second series, plates 26 and 29. [176] LAYARD, _Monuments_, first series, plates 58 and 60. [177] PLACE, _Ninive_, vol. ii. p. 233.