1120) we find a mention of boats as employed in the passage of the Euphrates.
These would probably be of the kind described by Herodotus, and represented on one of the most ancient bas-reliefs--round structures like the Welsh coracles, made of wickerwork and covered with skins, smeared over with a coating of bitumen.

Boats of this construction were made of a considerable size.

The one represented contains a chariot, and is navigated by two men.

[PLATE CXXXIII., Fig.

1.] In the later sculptures the number of navigators is raised to four, and the boats carry a heavy load of stone or other material.