70 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
A cylinder of the frequent black serpentine (fig. 184) gives the ibex with the usual 
design. Once more we have in fig. 185 Eabani duplicated, fighting a lion, and in 
the field, under the erased inscription, a bird and also a small lion over the eagle of 

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Lagash. Fig. 186 gives us, besides the usual Eabani fighting the lion, one unusual 
figure of Gilgamesh in a short garment and wearing shoes tipped up at the toes, 
as in the Hittite manner. The pose of the bull is also unusual, as observed by 


CJ Yarn 

Ménant, “ Pierres Gravées,” 1, p.go. These same tipped-up boots should have been 
drawn in fig. 187, where Gilgamesh appears repeated fighting buffaloes, one of 
which is drawn in a less upright position than is usual while the other appears to 
be urinating. 
