Note 317 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)
Walter Armstrong translation
Ménant, Essai, p. 94. Izdubar contends not only with monsters; he pursues, for his own pleasure, all the beasts of the desert and mountain; like the Nimrod of Genesis, he is a “mighty hunter before the Lord.” See the cylinders figured and explained by S. Haffner (La Chasse de l’Hercule assyrien, in the Gazette archéologique, 1879, p. 178–184).