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A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 327 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)

Walter Armstrong translation

The charging animal seems rather to be a wild boar. The shape of its head and body, the ridge of hair along the spine, the shape of the legs and feet, and its action in charging, all suggest a boar, a suggestion confirmed by the action of the hunter, who receives the rush of the animal on a kind of scarf or cloak, while he buries his boar-spear in its back.—Ed.

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