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22. Cylinder of Urzana (fig. 42), 
King of Muzazir, an Armenian district 
(Ménant, 1, p. 95). Probably about 
700 B.C. The inscription reads: 
Seal of Urzana 
King of the City Muzazir, 
the Capital city, fortified, 
of ushu stone 
which is built high up 
on dangerous mountains 
in full view.—Price. 

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23. Cylinder of Darius, King of Persia (fig. 43). This seal is remarkable not 
only for the quality of its work, but for the fact that only the name of the king 
is given, as its owner, and not that of any scribe or officer (Ménant, 1, p. 166). 
The inscription is bilingual. The Persian reads: “J am Darius the King,” and 
the Assyrian is a little fuller: “I am Darius the great King.” 
Besides these there may be mentioned several royal cylinders whose date is 
unknown, or which contain no figured design, but only an inscription. Such are: 
24. A seal of [Dun] gi, King of Erech, in the Metropolitan Museum, some- 
what broken, and containing simply an inscription. 
25. Another of Gudea, belonging to the Museum of The Hague (Ménant, 
“Catal. de La Haye,” p. 59, plate vi, No. 35; Schrader, “Keilinsch. Bib.,” 1, 
p- 64), gives the names of Gudea and his wife. It is barrel-shaped and merely 
inscribed. Perhaps this should hardly be called a seal cylinder, but rather a votive 
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IMPRESSIONS ON TABLETS OF ROYAL CYLINDERS. 
Quite as valuable as the royal cylinders themselves, for tests of classification, 
are the impressions of cylinders on tablets, whenever these impressions happen 
to. be distinct, and either the cylinders impressed contain a royal name or the tablet 
contains a written date. Of the impressions which contain a royal name whose 
approximate date is known, the number is few. ‘The following may be named: 
1. A cylinder with the name of Sargon, drawn by M. Heuzey (“ Découvertes 
en Chaldée,” p. 281) (fig. 44). On this fine cylinder Gilgamesh is seen attacking 
a lion, breaking the lion’s back over his knee. The style of the inscription and the 
design are of the same noble workmanship as the splendid de Clercq cylinder 
which shows Gilgamesh giving water to the buffaloes (fig. 26). 
