62 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
In fig. 148 we have a portion of a large marble cylinder of great antiquity, 
notable for the peculiar and distinctive headdress worn by the hero, who attacks 
a human-headed bull. One should observe the weapon in the field of fig. 150, in 







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which we have an early representation of both Gilgamesh and Eabani. The same 
weapon, if such it is and not a hieroglyphic character, 1s seen in fig. 151. It has a 
lance-head point, with a short shaft and a crescent handle. (See fig. 191.) In fig. 
152 we see the same weapon in the hand of 
the hero, while it is also figured in the field. 
Another interesting example of this period 
we see in fig. 151, in which a lion attacking 
a deer is in turn attacked by two heroes (or 
rather one duplicated) and a bull is attacked 
by another hero. A lizard, or crocodile, 
extends its length in the field. A peculiar 
cylinder of this period is seen in fig. 153, where a lion jumps on the back of a bull. 
In fig. 155, representing a wooded country, we have a club in the field, and we 
observe, as in some other cases of the oldest seals, the long queue of Eabani. 


The cylinders above described and figured give us representations of Gilgamesh 
and Eabani of a period which appears to be hardly later than those of what we 
called the archaic types of Chapter vu. They present us with the earlier forms 
of the mythological personages whom we identify, following George Smith, with 
Gilgamesh and Eabani. Gilgamesh appears from the first drawn either in profile 
