Note 8 — Chapter VI
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The zebu, or Bos indicus, is represented on Sumerian sculpture from Lagash, dating from the middle of the third millennium b.c. (cf. "Sumer and Akkad, p. 69, Fig. 21); men are represented ploughing with it in a Kassite seal-impression (see above, p. 175 Fig. 40); and it formed one of the most valued classes of booty from the Sea-Country at the time of the later Assyrian empire (see Fig. 45).