ich foreign auxiliaries were added
in numbers varying with the times.* A permanent nucleus of troops was
always in garrison in the capital under the "tartan," or placed in the
principal towns at the disposal of the governors.**

* We have no bas-relief representing the armies of Tiglath-
pileser I. Everything in the description which follows is
taken from the monuments of Assurnazirpal and Shalmaneser
II., revised as far as possible by the inscriptions of
Tiglath-pileser; the armament of both infantry and chariotry
must have been practically the same in the two periods.

** This is based on the account given in the Obelisk of
Shalmaneser, where the king, for example, after having
gathered his soldiers together at Kalakh [Calah], put at
their head Dainassur the artan, "the master of his
innumerable troops."

[Illustration: 183.jpg TWO ASSYRIAN ARCHERS]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin.

The contingents which came to be enrolled at these centres on the first
rumour of war may have been taken from among the feudal militia, as was
the custom in the Nile valley, or the whole population may have had to
render personal military service, each receiving while with the colours
a certain daily pay. The nobles and feudal lords were accustomed to call
their own people together, and either placed themselves at their head or
commissioned an officer to act in their behalf.*

* The assembling of foot-soldiers and chariots is often
described at the beginning of each campaign; the _Donation
of Bittimerodach_ brings before us a great feudal lord, who
leads his contingent to the King of Chaldaea, and anything
which took place among the Babylonians had its counterpart
among the Assyrians. Sometimes the king had need of all the
contingents, and then it was said he "assembled the
country." Auxiliaries are mentioned, for example, in the
_Annals of Assurnazirpal_, col. iii. 11. 58-77, where the
king, in his passage, rallies one after the other the troops
of Bit-Bakhiani, of Azalli, of Bit-Adini, of Garganish, and
of the Patinu.

[Illustration: 184.jpg AN ASSYRIAN WAR-CHARIOT CHARGING THE FOE]

Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Mansell.

These recruits were subjected to the training necessary for their
calling by exercises similar to those of the Egyptians, but of a rougher
sort and better adapted to the cumbrous ch