There is great difficulty in understanding how the ropes were got into their position.
Certainly no single throw could have placed then, round the neck of the animal in the manner represented, nor could the capture have been effected, according to all appearance, by a single hunter.

Two persons, at least, must have been required to combine their efforts--one before and one behind the creature which it was designed to capture.
[Illustration: PLATE 122] Deer, which have always abounded in Assyria were either hunted with dogs, or driven by beaters into nets, or sometimes shot with arrows by sportsmen.

The illustration (PLATE CXXII., Fig.

1) represents a dog in chase of a hind, and shows that the hounds which the Assyrians used for this purpose were of the same breed as those employed in the hunt of the lion and of the wild ass.

In [PLATE CXXII., Fig.