5.] While the boiling progressed, some portions were perhaps fried on the fire below.

[PLATE CXXXVII., Fig.

5.] Mutton appears to have been the favorite meat in the camp.

At the court there would be a supply of venison, antelope's flesh, hares, partridges, and other game, varied perhaps occasionally with such delicacies as the flesh of the wild ox and the onager.
Fish must have been an article of food in Assyria, or the monuments would not have presented us; with so many instances of fishermen.
Locusts were also eaten, and were accounted a delicacy, as is proved by their occurrence among the choice dainties of a banquet, which the royal attendants are represented in one bas-relief as bringing into the palace of the king.

Fruits, as was natural in so hot a climate, were highly prized; among those of most repute were pomegranates, grapes, citrons, and, apparently, pineapples.