Note 174 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
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).