THE GOD ATTACKING AN ENEMY. 55 
In fig. 137a we again have two scenes. Here the god, bearing the war-club, 
wears the short skirt and in one scene forces the enemy on his knees and in the 
other pushes him against the mountain. 
Another cylinder of peculiar interest is seen in fig. 137). Here we seem to see 
the god in three several conflicts. In one the god, in his usual short garment, seizes 
his enemy by the beard. The enemy holds in his hand 
a weapon such as Heuzey calls a boomerang. Between 
the two is a small figure of a worshiper with hand lifted 
high, facing the god. In the second scene the god with 
a poniard stabs a monster with the upper body of a 
man and the lower body of a bull, like Eabani, with 
whom Gilgamesh occasionally engaged in fight. The 
third scene is very remarkable and unusual. Here the 
god, with a weapon or whip in his hand, rides on a bull and tramples on a sub- 
dued foe who lifts his hand in supplication. It is clear that we have here a feature 
from the time when the horse was unknown, or not used for war purposes. 
In fig. 137¢ we have a simpler variation of the design, where it is passing into 
its later conventional form of the Middle Empire. The short-skirted god raises 
his hand to smite his already conquered and deprecating foe, and steps on his leg. 
In the later period the foe is generally of a smaller size than the god. These will 
be seen in Chapter xxvii. 





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In fig. 138 we have again three scenes. I have not seen this cylinder and I 
suspect some errors in the drawing of it, as it appears to be considerably worn, 
judging from the disappearance of the head of the mace in two instances and the 
imperfect condition of the victim’s head where he is seized by the beard. Probably 
it is the same god in each of the scenes who attacks the same single foe. 
A very archaic cylinder with what may be a partly parallel design to that 
which we are considering is seen in fig. 138a, although it may be a case of ordinary 
fight between soldiers. One scene gives a seated deity receiving a worshiper. A 
