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4.] Babylonian armies seem to have been composed, like Assyrian, of three elements--infantry, cavalry, and chariots.

Of the chariots we appear to have one or two representations upon the cylinders, but they are too rudely carved to be of much value.

It is not likely that the chariots differed much either in shape or equipment from the Assyrian, unless they were, like those of Susiana, ordinarily drawn by mules.

A peculiar car, four-wheeled, and drawn by four horses, with an elevated platform in front and a seat behind for the driver, which the cylinders occasionally exhibit, is probably not a war-chariot, but a sacred vehicle, like the tensa or thensa of the Romans.