62 THE OX AND ITS KINDRED 
Assurnassirpal. In one of these, which is described 
and figured by Dr. Dlirst,^ the king is shown stand- 
ing up in a car drawn by three horses abreast, 
which are at the gallop. Over the axle of the right 
chariot-wheel are the fore-legs of a galloping aurochs, 
which the king has seized in his left hand by the 
right horn and is about to decapitate with a sword 
held in his right. Beneath the horses lies a second 
aurochs, which has been stricken down by arrows. 
Armed horsemen gallop behind the chariot in case of 
assistance being required. 
In a later work (R. Pumpelly's Explorations in 
Turkestan, Washington, 1908, vol. ii. p. 361), Dr. 
Diirst identifies the aurochs of the Assyrian and 
Babylonian sculptures with the extinct Narbada ox 
{B, nainadiciis) of the Pleistocene of central India, 
which he terms the Asiatic aurochs ; while he like- 
wise refers to the same species certain imperfect 
bovine remains from the Prehistoric deposits of 
Turkestan. The Narbada ox is, however, probably 
related to the bantin and gaur of south-eastern Asia, 
a skull of the former, described by Professor Riitimeyer 
under the name of B. palceogaurus, being essentially 
of the bantin and gaur type, as has been already 
pointed out by Professor J. C. Ewart. The Narbada 
ox, or a closely allied species, may, in fact, have been 
the ultimate ancestor of the zebu, and thus of the 
ancient Egyptian and modern Hungarian long-horned 
cattle. Such an ancestry is indeed claimed for the 
two latter by Dr. Diirst, who includes in the same 
group a skull of the Hissar humped ox (pp. cit. pi. 
Ixxxii. fig. i) without apparently recognising that it is 
a zebu. If the descent of the zebu from the Narbada 
^ Op, cit. p. 9, pi. i. fig. 3. 
