Original Historical Documents of Assyrian times
A cleaned stone threshold leading to the throne room of Sennacherib's palace. Notice the legs and feet alongside the flanking walls.

In Egypt the representations of skillfully ivory carved bull's hoofs on the legs of chairs during 1st dynasty times changed to lion paws in later times. Ivory bull's legs were found in the royal tombs at Abydos. [For images see C. Aldred, `Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom', London, 1965, p. 56]

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Shalmaneser III
Sargon - in Eglish und Deutsch
Esarhaddon - in English und Deutsch
Crawl out of this Tomb