72 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
An extraordinarily large and fine example of the divine bull is shown in fig. 188 
from the de Sarzec collection in the Louvre. On one side of the inscription, which 
contains simply the name of the goddess Ninni, we see a lion and a bull crossed, 
by a frequent convention (usually two lions crossed attacking two bulls, or two 
bulls crossed attacked by two lions). Gilgamesh, in front view, clad only in his 
girdle and tassel, seizes the bull by the neck and one front leg, while another figure, 
quite differently clad in a short garment scarcely reaching the knee and with a 
high feathered headdress, seizes the lion in the same way. It is not clear whom 
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this figure represents, hardly Gilgamesh; he takes the usual place of Eabani. On 
the other side of the inscription we see two representations of the human-headed 
bull, one of which is attacked by Gilgamesh. Between the backs of the two human- 
headed bulls is the lion-headed eagle, the symbol of Lagash, stretching his talons 
out toward the great monsters as in the vase of Entemena (fig. 56). Besides this 
small eagle there is a tree and also a small figure of the Sun-god Shamash rising 
above the mountains, as explained in Chapter xl. 

So closely related to this that it might have come from the same atelier is the 
lapis-lazuli cylinder shown in fig. 189. On the one side of the two human-headed 
bulls is Gilgamesh in his usual representation, with bare head and curled hair, 
while on the other side is a similar figure, but with a square headdress and wearing 
a short fringed garment. Also a lion attacks a bull, and, under a short inscription 
of two lines which shows it belonged to a dupshar or scribe, a small figure, probably 
of a god, clothed in a long garment and with rays from his head, stands holding 
a long spear. Another example of this design is shown in fig. 192, where Gilgamesh 
attacks the lion which has attacked the human-headed bull. This design is repeated, 
reversed. 
Another representation is shown in fig. 191, in which Eabani, in profile, attacks 
a stag which is in turn attacked by a lion, and we see the human-headed bull attacked 
on one side by Gilgamesh and on the other by a lion. Here also we observe the 
