[178] Among the reliefs in which the Assyrian horse may be best studied, are the slabs from the palace of Sennacherib, in which a string of horses led by grooms are shown (LAYARD, _Monuments_, second series, plate 7). They have no trappings or clothing of any kind to hide their form. [179] Other incidents, figured with no less spirit, will be found in RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. pp. 355, 356; 516, 517. [180] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 21, _Monuments_, first series, plate 61; second series, plate 50. BOTTA (_Monuments de Ninive_, plate 128), reproduces a group of camels sketched with a light hand, but with much truth and judgment. [181] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 433. All four faces of this obelisk are reproduced on plates 53–56 of the first series of LAYARD’S _Monuments_. [182] RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. pp. 40 and 350; and LAYARD, _Discoveries_, p. 109. [183] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. pp. 434, 435. [184] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 436. The Assyrians seem to have been much struck with these apes when they first appeared at Calah. This is shown by the care expended upon them by the sculptor of Shalmaneser’s obelisk; he has reproduced the bas-relief of Assurnazirpal on a smaller scale (LAYARD, _Monuments_, first series, Plate 55). [185] LAYARD, _Nineveh_, vol. ii. p. 437. [186] LAYARD, _Monuments_, series ii. plates 32 (Khorsabad), and 40 (Kouyundjik). [187] A lion hunt is to be found in the bas-reliefs of Assurnazirpal, dating from the ninth century, B.C. (LAYARD, _Monuments_, first series, plates 10 and 31); but it is especially in those of Assurbanipal (7th century), that the animal becomes so conspicuous. [188] On the subject of these great hunts and their arrangements, see RAWLINSON, _The Five Great Monarchies_, vol. i. pp. 505–512. The custom is still kept up in Eastern countries, and their _personnel_ is pretty much the same as it was in antiquity. See CHARDIN, _Voyage en Perse_ (Langles’ edition), vol. iii. p. 399; and ROUSSELET, _L’Inde des Rajahs_, pp. 202, 464, 468.