
24 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
16. Another seal of Gudea (fig. 39) gives us the usual design of a worshiper 
led into the presence of a seated deity, who is this time a goddess (see Am. Journ. 
Sem. Studies, xx, p. 115). It reads: “Gudea, patesi of Shirpurla; Abba the scribe, 
thy servant. ’’—Price. 
17. A seal of Urlama, a patesi of Tello who succeeded Gudea; fig. 39a. (See 
Heuzey, Rev. d’Assyr., v, p. 139: “Découvertes,”’ p. 307.) 
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18. A cylinder of the Kassite King Burnaburiash (fig. 40), 1420 or 1400 B.C., 
belonging to the Metropolitan Museum. The inscription reads: “ Hadad, supreme 
god of judgment, who rains fertility, who bestoweth plenty, heart-rest, the drink 
ashnan his gift is that which he maketh to be good: Sutakh the Kassite, servant 
of Burnaburiash, King of the world.”—Pinches. 
19. A cylinder of the Kassite King Kurigalzu (fig. 40a), 1410 or 1350 B.C. 
(Ménant, 1, 193). These two last cylinders have the same style, fixing that of the 
Kassite period. ‘This seal belonged to Duriulmas, an officer of Kurigalzu. It is 
translated: ‘‘Duriulmas, son of Belsunu, servant of Kurigalzu, King of Assar, 
sakkanaku of the city Dur-Kurigalzu.”—Ménant. With it may be compared a 
similar cylinder in the de Clercq Collection (No. 257) which belonged to a son of 
a Duriulmas, who may have been another person. 
20. Another cylinder of Kurigalzu belonging to Terimangar (fig. 41a). See 
fig. 539 for description. 
21. A cylinder belonging to Sakkanaku, son of Kurigalzu (fig. 41). Ménant, 
Ty peuloz: 
