32 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
by the hind quarters. Almost precisely like this is fig. 61. Another fine example 
of this type is seen in fig. 62. Here again we have the claws of the eagle on the 
rumps of the two ibexes; while in the upper register are shown a gate with a porter 
on one side and a seated figure on the other, and a presumably female figure is 

drinking through a tube from a vase, a design which will be considered later. 
Nearly the same scene is shown in fig. 62a. We have in fig. 63 an unusually fine 
example of this eagle of Lagash seizing two ibexes by the rump. Hommel finds in 
this cylinder the name of Lugal-anda, the famous patesi of Sirgulla before Sargon. 
The six lines of inscription are read: 
To Lu-dingir— . . [Lugul-an-da, Hommel] by PA-AL (= magician) 
The mighty man of the god. .... his servant.—PRIcE. 
The king (or Lugal) (dingir) KA-DI 
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In these cases it will be observed that the perfect bilateral symmetry, which is 
so marked a feature in the later art, has not yet been achieved. ‘The eagle is not 
between two animals back to back or face to face. It is very common to have a 
series of animals or birds in the lower register of these cylinders. An example with 
the long-tailed oryx is in fig. 66. A similar long-tailed oryx is one of the two seized 
by the eagle in fig. 67, the other being a bull, and the two attacked by crossed lions. 
