66 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
as on the earlier cylinders. We have now passed the period when the bison of 
Elam was the familiar animal, and the Chaldean artists now affect the buffalo of 
their own region. When associated, however, with Eabani, the latter fights the 
lion, while Gilgamesh fights the buffalo or bison, as if its conquest were the greater 
feat. Eabani always retains the horns of the bison, which he wears in the more 

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archaic cylinders, and never has those of the buffalo. Equally the human-headed 
bull has always the horns of the bison and never of the buffalo. Thus the memory 
seems to be preserved that the origin of these forms, as of Gilgamesh also, was not 
in the low swamps of Babylon, but in a land of hills and forests. 
Both Gilgamesh and Eabani continue to be represented with the face in profile 
as well as in front view, although later the front view becomes predominant and 
finally exclusive. There can be no doubt that the two forms represent the same, 
a single Gilgamesh and a single Eabani, for they appear in precisely the same 
attitudes and combinations; and it is therefore useless to try to distinguish them 
