ARCHAIC CYLINDERS: THE EAGLE OF LAGASH. oo 
Two other examples are shown in figs. 68, 69, both worn, as usual. One of 
them shows a scorpion under the eagle, and the other a star. Here may be included 
a large cylinder in two registers (fig. 70) in which it is not clear that the eagle is 
seizing the two animals, perhaps deer, that are attacked by men in the lower regis- 
ter ; in the upper register are two seated deities. This is a shell cylinder of very 

rude, early work. Very peculiar is fig. 71, which is a thick marble cylinder in shape 
like those described in Chapter xxx. It shows the design substantially complete, 
either side up; for while the eagle seizes on each side a figure like Eabani, the body 
of a human figure, presumably Gilgamesh, so meets that of the eagle that when 
reversed he is seen grasping and lifting the Eabani figures by the feet. One 
Eabani seizes a reversed ibex and the other the lion which attacks it. 

70 
We have a modification of this design, which is so far as I know unique, in 
fig. 72. Here the eagle seizes two serpents. There is a tree, and a nude man, with 
a peculiar archaic head-dress, seizes a deer. This apparently belongs to the forest 
region of Elam. It reminds us of the myth of the eagle that killed the young 
serpents. 
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