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camels and elephants ; but beyond the accuracy with 

 which the attitudes of the limbs are rendered, the execu- 

 tion otherwise is heavy, and the perfect synchronism of 

 movement on the part of the two horses in the bas- 

 relief of Hedynet-Abou looks very ridiculous. 



Yet more massive and unnatural is the horse repre- 

 sented at a walking pace in Fig. 140, but it shows that 



Ftg. 136.— Transition from trot to gallop. 



in Assyrian art there was even in those days a con- 

 siderable knowledge of the movements of a horse, for 

 the walk is, as we said, the most difficult pace to un- 

 derstand, and the one most often incorrectly drawn. 



In ancient art, however, we sometimes meet with 

 very correct ideas regarding this pace. First we have 

 (Fig. 141) a bas-relief of the Volscian period ; then two 



