[155] Ibid. p. 294.
[156] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 185–196, plates ix. x. xi. and figs. 172, 173, 174, 178, 183, 198, 199, 205, 208, 213, 214, 215, 216, 223, &c.
[157] Ibid. figs. 273–275.
[158] Ibid. p. 192.
[159] An almost unique exception to this rule occurs in those bas-reliefs in the British Museum which represent the great hunts of Assurbanipal. We there see a company of beardless individuals marching, bare-headed, dressed in a short tunic and armed with lance and buckler. But this is an apparent rather than a real exception. The chase is not war. These men are not soldiers, but attendants on the hunt, an inferior kind of shikarrie. In the battle pieces we sometimes see the eunuchs attached to the king’s person fighting at his elbow.
[160] We have no reason to believe that the Egyptian fashion of wearing wigs obtained in Assyria (Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. pp. 327, 378). Herodotus tells us that in his time the Chaldæans wore long hair (i. 195).
[161] This is the opinion of M. Lenormant (Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. xxv. pp. 218–225), and M. Ménant has upheld the same thesis in a paper read before the Académie des Inscriptions (Remarques sur des Portraits des Rois Assyro-Chaldéens, in the Comptes Rendus for 1881, pp. 254–267).
[162] On this point again I regret to be unable to agree with M. Ménant; I am unable to perceive any of the differences of which he speaks (see p. 258 of his paper).
[163] Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies, vol. ii. p. 500.
[164] Upon the discovery of these figures and their nature, see Layard, Discoveries, p. 230.