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have been lost (fig. 196), where we see a bull attacked on one side by a lion and 
on the other by a leopard. There is an intimation in the Epic of Gilgamesh (see 
Jastrow, “Religion of Babylonia and Assyria,” pp. 492, 514) that Gilgamesh over- 
came a “panther,”’ but it was probably a leopard. We have no pictures of what are 
likely to be “panthers.” An excellent example of the crossing of animal forms so 
much affected at this early period is seen in fig. 197, in which two human-headed 

bulls are crossed and two lions. One of the lions attacks one of the bull-monsters, 
while the other attacks a bull which is attacked on the other side by Gilgamesh 
seen in profile. In fig. 198 we have a very archaic example in which only a single 
bull-monster appears, with Gilgamesh and other animals. 
There is a small number of cases in which, by a sort of a degradation of the 
myth or a fantastic disregard of it as we know it, Gilgamesh appears to be repre- 
sented as contending with his friend Eabani, although this is more likely to appear 
at a somewhat later period, as in fig. 459. Equally fantastic is it when Gilgamesh 

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is decoratively represented as fighting against his double, as in fig. 199, where, 
while wrestling, each Gilgamesh is stabbing the other. The third Gilgamesh 
defies explanation. In Revue d’Assyriologie, v1, p. 57, Heuzey gives a similar 
figure on a bas-relief carrying fish in each hand. The god with the spouting vase 
is discussed in Chapter xxxvIl. 
There is a considerable number of cylinders of this period, not usually those 
of the better art, which represent animals alone, usually in conflict, with no human 
figure, or the human figure not at all distinctive. An unusually fine one which 

