CHAP. VII.] 



HUNTING OF URUS. 



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M. Massenat to be a bison, but the double curvature, as 

 well as the length of the horns, prove that it was the urus, 



an animal which was hunted in the forests of Aachen 

 (Aix la Chapelle) by the Emperor Charles the Great in 

 the ninth century after Christ. Another hunting scene 1 



1 Eel Aq., B. PI. 2, Fig. 8. 



