Part 3

BACCHUS RIDING ON A PANTHER 74 Mosaic found at Pompeii. (Sommer.)

BRONZE STATUE OF AN EGYPTIAN CAT 82 From the Collection of H.E. Monsieur Camille Barrère, French Ambassador at Rome

REINDEER BROWSING. OLDER STONE AGE 86 Found in a cave at Thayngen in Switzerland.

HORSE DRAWING DISC OF THE SUN. OLDER BRONZE AGE 86 National Museum at Copenhagen.

HATHOR COW 102 Found in 1906 by Dr. Édouard Naville at Deir-el-bahari. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

WILD GOATS AND YOUNG 108 Assyrian Relief. British Museum. (Mansell.)

ASSYRIAN GOD CARRYING ANTELOPE AND WHEAT-EAR 116 British Museum. (Mansell.)

COUNTING CATTLE 128 Egyptian Fresco. British Museum. (Mansell.)

KING FIGHTING GRIFFIN (“BAD ANIMAL”) 142 Relief in Palace of Darius at Persepolis. Photographed by Jane Dieulafoy. From “L’Art Antique de la Perse.” By permission of M. Marcel Dieulafoy.

THE REAL DOG OF IRAN 152 Bronze Statuette found at Susa. Louvre. From Perrot’s “History of Art in Ancient Persia.” By permission of Messrs. Chapman & Hall, Ltd.

BUDDHA PACIFYING AN INTOXICATED ELEPHANT WHICH HAD BEEN SENT 188 TO DESTROY HIM. THE ELEPHANT STOOPS IN ADORATION Græco-Buddhist sculpture from a ruined monastery at Takt-i-Bahi. India Museum. Photographed for this work.

RECLINING BULL 192 Ancient Southern Indian sculpture. From a photograph in the India Museum.

WILD BULLS AND TAMED BULLS 201 Reliefs on two gold cups found in a tomb at Vapheio near Amyclae. Fifteenth century B.C. (possibly earlier). From Schuckhardt’s “Schliemann’s Excavations.” By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

THE GARDEN OF EDEN 208 By Rubens. Hague Gallery. (Bruckmann.)

GENESIS VIII. 212 Loggie di Raffaello. In the Vatican. Drawn by N. Consoni.

DANIEL AND THE LIONS 216 From an early Christian Sarcophagus in S. Vitale, Ravenna. (Alinari.)

“AN INDIAN ORPHEUS” 222 Inlaid marble work panel originally surmounting a doorway in the Great Hall of Audience in the Mogul Palace at Delhi (about 1650). Photographed for this work from a painting by a native artist in the India Museum. Imitated from a painting by Raphael.

MOSLEM BEGGAR FEEDING DOGS AT CONSTANTINOPLE 226 From life.

ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE PAW OF A LION 253 By Hubert van Eyck. Naples Museum. (Anderson.)

ST. EUSTACE (OR ST. HUBERT) AND THE STAG 256 By Vittore Pisano. National Gallery. (Hanfstängl.)

“LE MENEUR DES LOUPS” 276 Designed and drawn by Maurice Sand.

THE ASSYRIAN HORSE 284 From a relief in the British Museum. (Mansell.)

ARABIAN HORSE OF THE SAHARA 288 From life.

THE BANYAN DEER 328 From “Stûpa of Bharhut.” By General Cunningham. By permission of the India Office. (Griggs.)

EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL, WITH HIS WIFE, ENGAGED IN FOWLING IN THE 330 PAPYRUS SWAMP. HIS HUNTING CAT HAS SEIZED THREE BIRDS. Mural painting in British Museum. (Mansell.)

ASSYRIAN LION AND LIONESS IN PARADISE PARK 336 British Museum. (Mansell.) The King’s reservations for big game were called “paradises.”

LAMBS 338 Relief on a fifth century tomb at Ravenna. (Alinari.)

“IL BUON PASTORE” 346 Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna.