WILD OX AND ITS EXTERMINATION 63 
ox be eventually established, the name B. indiciis^ as 
being much the earliest, will have to stand for the 
species. 
The remains from Turkestan appear too imperfect 
to admit of definite specific determination. 
Another Assyrian fresco described by Sir H. 
Layard, whose figure is reproduced on page 83 of 
Dr. Hilzheimer's oft-quoted article entitled " Wie 
hat der* Ur ausgesehen ? " shows a king and his 
attendant galloping alongside an aurochs bull, which 
exhibits signs of being nearly exhausted. The 
animal is depicted with a heavy mane and a throat- 
fringe, its tail reaching somewhat below the hocks. 
The forward direction of the horns is well shown, 
although their curvature is made too like those of a 
gnu. 
The bull shown in the accompanying text-figure ^ — 
of which the central part represents the sacred 
Assyrian symbolic tree — appears to be likewise an 
aurochs, although no mane is shown, and the tail, 
which is heavily tufted, reaches to the fetlocks. 
The animal is quite unlike the figure of the ancient 
Assyrian humped ox reproduced later on in the 
present volume, and in general contour agrees with 
the figure forming the second illustration on page 83 
of Dr. Hilzheimer's paper. This figure of, presum- 
ably, an aurochs bull is from the tomb of Istartor, 
in Babylon. In this instance a mane is depicted, 
and the tail is as long as in the figure here repro- 
duced, reaching to the fetlocks, and having a large 
terminal tuft. The limbs are relatively long and 
^ This sculpture is known as Lord Aberdeen's Black Stone ; the 
original figure occurs on p. 298 of Fergusson's Nineveh and 
Persepolis^ 
