I40 THE OX AND ITS KINDRED 
illustration. In the contour of the neck and shoulders 
as well as in the direction of the horns, the representa- 
tions of these humped cattle differ widely from 
those apparently representing the aurochs {supra^ 
p. 64). That these long-horned cattle did not come 
from Egypt is demonstrated by the presence of the 
well-developed hump, but the horns are of the 
Egyptian type.^ Zebu, as already mentioned, still 
occur in parts of Mesopotamia, but mostly of the 
short-horned type, although, long-horned animals are 
sometimes seen. Like the Egyptians in the time of the 
very ancient times the home of various types of 
short-horned cattle more or less nearly related to the 
zebu. These cattle are, however, undoubtedly of 
very mixed origin, as is evident from the fact that, on 
his return from his conquests in Palestine and Arabia, 
Tiglath-Pileser brought home 20,000 head of captured 
cattle in his train, while after a war in northern Syria 
he returned with another 1500.^ It, therefore, seems 
unprofitable to further discuss the nature and origin 
1 Ibid. p. 15. 2 Di^irst, loc. cit. 
^ See G. Smith, Assyrian Discoveries, pp. 281-284 ; and DursL, 
op. cit. p. 17. 
Pharaohs, the 
ancient Baby- 
AssYRiAN Humped Cattle drawing 
A Cart. 
\v lonians posses- 
^ sed a humpless 
and a humped 
type of short- 
horned cattle,^ 
while Assyria, 
Syria, and Asia 
Minor generally 
have been since 
