Exotic animals from Musri: "a river-ox (Asian water buffalo), and (Indian) rhinoceros, an antelope." The sculptor had clearly never seen a rhinoceros.
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Black obelisk of Shalmaneser III, side B row 3 Exotic animals from Musri: "a river-ox (Asian water buffalo), and (Indian) rhinoceros, an antelope." The sculptor had clearly never seen a rhinoceros. |