ILLUSTRATIONS

THE EMPEROR AKBAR PERSONALLY DIRECTING THE TYING UP OF A WILD ELEPHANT. Tempera painting in the “Akbar Namah,” by Abu’l Fazl (1597-98). India Museum. Photographed for this work. Frontispiece

DEER WORSHIPPING THE WHEEL OF THE LAW. Tope of Sanchi, drawn by Lieut.-Col. Maisey From Fergusson’s “Tree and Serpent Worship.” By permission of the India Office. 11

THE BUDDHISTIC TIGER From a painting on silk by Ko-Tō in the British Museum. Photographed for this work. In Japanese Buddhism the Tiger is the type of Wisdom. 21

ORPHEUS Fresco found at Pompeii. (Sommer.) 32

STELE WITH CAT AND BIRD Athens Museum. 40

CAPITOLINE SHE-WOLF (Bruckmann.) Bronze statue. Early Etruscan style. The twins are modern. 44

LION BEING LED FROM THE ARENA BY A SLAVE From the mosaic pavement of a Roman villa at Nennig. 47

BACCHUS RIDING ON A PANTHER Mosaic found at Pompeii. (Sommer.) 74

BRONZE STATUE OF AN EGYPTIAN CAT From the Collection of H.E. Monsieur Camille Barrère, French Ambassador at Rome 82

REINDEER BROWSING. OLDER STONE AGE Found in a cave at Thayngen in Switzerland. 86

HORSE DRAWING DISC OF THE SUN. OLDER BRONZE AGE National Museum at Copenhagen. 86

HATHOR COW Found in 1906 by Dr. Édouard Naville at Deir-el-bahari. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Fund. 102

WILD GOATS AND YOUNG Assyrian Relief. British Museum. (Mansell.) 108

ASSYRIAN GOD CARRYING ANTELOPE AND WHEAT-EAR British Museum. (Mansell.) 116

COUNTING CATTLE Egyptian Fresco. British Museum. (Mansell.) 128

10KING FIGHTING GRIFFIN (“BAD ANIMAL”) Relief in Palace of Darius at Persepolis. Photographed by Jane Dieulafoy. From “L’Art Antique de la Perse.” By permission of M. Marcel Dieulafoy. 142

THE REAL DOG OF IRAN Bronze Statuette found at Susa. Louvre. From Perrot’s “History of Art in Ancient Persia.” By permission of Messrs. Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 152

BUDDHA PACIFYING AN INTOXICATED ELEPHANT WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO DESTROY HIM. THE ELEPHANT STOOPS IN ADORATION Græco-Buddhist sculpture from a ruined monastery at Takt-i-Bahi. India Museum. Photographed for this work. 188

RECLINING BULL Ancient Southern Indian sculpture. From a photograph in the India Museum. 192

WILD BULLS AND TAMED BULLS Reliefs on two gold cups found in a tomb at Vapheio near Amyclae. Fifteenth century B.C. (possibly earlier). From Schuckhardt’s “Schliemann’s Excavations.” By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 201

THE GARDEN OF EDEN By Rubens. Hague Gallery. (Bruckmann.) 208

GENESIS VIII. Loggie di Raffaello. In the Vatican. Drawn by N. Consoni. 212

DANIEL AND THE LIONS From an early Christian Sarcophagus in S. Vitale, Ravenna. (Alinari.) 216

“AN INDIAN ORPHEUS” Inlaid marble work panel originally surmounting a doorway in the Great Hall of Audience in the Mogul Palace at Delhi (about 1650). Photographed for this work from a painting by a native artist in the India Museum. Imitated from a painting by Raphael. 222

MOSLEM BEGGAR FEEDING DOGS AT CONSTANTINOPLE From life. 226

ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE PAW OF A LION By Hubert van Eyck. Naples Museum. (Anderson.) 253

ST. EUSTACE (OR ST. HUBERT) AND THE STAG By Vittore Pisano. National Gallery. (Hanfstängl.) 256

“LE MENEUR DES LOUPS” Designed and drawn by Maurice Sand. 276

THE ASSYRIAN HORSE From a relief in the British Museum. (Mansell.) 284

ARABIAN HORSE OF THE SAHARA From life. 288

THE BANYAN DEER From “Stûpa of Bharhut.” By General Cunningham. By permission of the India Office. (Griggs.) 328

EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL, WITH HIS WIFE, ENGAGED IN FOWLING IN THE PAPYRUS SWAMP. HIS HUNTING CAT HAS SEIZED THREE BIRDS. Mural painting in British Museum. (Mansell.) 330

ASSYRIAN LION AND LIONESS IN PARADISE PARK British Museum. (Mansell.) The King’s reservations for big game were called “paradises.” 336

LAMBS Relief on a fifth century tomb at Ravenna. (Alinari.) 338

“IL BUON PASTORE” Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna. 346

LT COL. MAISEY DEL. W. BRIGGS, LITH. DEER WORSHIPPING THE WHEEL OF THE LAW. Tope of Sanchi.

11The Place of Animals in Human Thought