GILGAMESH, EABANI, AND THE DIVINE BULL. 73 
dagger in the field. A beautifully engraved carnelian cylinder, but smaller, as the 
material required, is shown in fig. 190, where Gilgamesh, in profile, attacks a bull, 
while a double representation appears of Gilgamesh in front view attacking the 
human-headed bull. The two differ, however, in this, that in one case the hero 
grasps the fore leg of the monster, while in the other he thrusts a dagger into its 
bowels. ‘This is one of the cases that prove that it is a death struggle that is repre- 
sented, and no mere sport. Between the tails of the monsters is engraved a small 
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figure with arms folded, perhaps a worshiper, or the owner of the seal. In 192a 
Gilgamesh is duplicated fighting the divine bull, while Eabani fights a lion; and 
there is a small god or, perhaps, worshiper. In fig. 193 we see the two representa- 
tions of the human-headed bull attacked by Gilgamesh, if it be Gilgamesh in both 
cases; for here, as in fig. 188, one of the heroes is in profile and wears a short skirt. 
Besides these we have another scene in which a god with rays from his shoulders, 
therefore some form of Shamash or Nergal, attacks Eabani. In fig. 194, besides 

the double representation of the front view Gilgamesh with the bull monster, we 
have the profile Gilgamesh attacking a lion; also in the field a club, a scorpion, 
and the peculiar emblem of a star connected with a rhomb, an early form of the 
symbol of the Sun-god. We have in fig. 195 probably a somewhat later represen- 
tation of the two bull monsters crossed, behind one of which is a lion attacked by 
Eabani; another scene gives us a gazelle attacked by a leopard. ‘The cases in which 
a leopard is represented are so few that it may be well to give here a fragment of a 
cylinder of this type and early period in which the human or semi-human figures 
