Fig. 108.—Tent serving as the royal stable (Bas-relief in British Museum).
Fig. 109.—Sennacherib’s throne. Bas-relief (British Museum.)
Wood was the essential part of the structure of the chariots, the wheels of which have spokes turned in the lathe, and the body of which is of woven wicker-work, while the pole, describing a graceful curve, ends in an elegant horse’s head or in the head of a deer, a bull, a lion or a swan. The very weapons, lances, daggers and bows have shafts, hilts, and handles carved into figures of animals, crouching, sleeping, springing or folded in two, similar to the figures drawn and carved by the mediæval decorators.
