The chief state-officers and other personages of high rank followed the same practice.

Inferior persons served either as cavalry or as foot-soldiers.
The Assyrian war-chariot is thought to have been made of wood.

Like the Greek and the Egyptian, it appears to have been mounted from behind where it was completely open, or closed only by means of a shield, which (as it seems) could be hung across the aperture.

It was completely panelled at the sides, and often highly ornamented, as will be seen from the various illustrations given in this chapter.

The wheels were two in number, and were placed far back, at or very near the extreme end of the body, so that the weight pressed considerably upon the pole, as was the case also in Egypt.