78 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
raised. His head has been purposely defaced. ‘The style of the engraving shows 
a northern source and it was purchased at Mardin. Very much like it in its style 
of cutting is fig. 210. The lower part of the seal is broken off, but it is easy to 
recognize Ramman-Martu and the goddess, apparently Ishtar, who lifts up the 
Babylonian caduceus of two serpents, under which is a small figure of Zirbanit. 
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Another excellent example, apparently from the later Babylonian period, is 
seen in fig. 211. On one side of the head of Gilgamesh is the sun in the crescent, 
and on the other a head like that of Gilgamesh. On one side of him stands Zir- 
banit, and the careful marking of the navel shows the late period. On the other 
side is a deity, partly defaced, with the foot on a goat, perhaps, or a gazelle, and 
holding a crook, the meaning of which is not clear. The remaining space is filled 
with three registers, the upper one of which gives us two small, nude figures, each 
lifting one foot across the other knee. The other figures in this and the other regis- 
ters are partly defaced, but show small figures and a quadruped. 
An interesting cylinder is shown in fig. 345, where Gilgamesh and another 
standing god each are the source of streams which fall into a single vase on the 
ground. Above the vase held in the other god’s hand is the goat-fish. This seems 
to identify this god as Ea and to indicate that Gilgamesh is his attendant and 
servant. 

In the Hittite seals Gilgamesh was a frequent figure. Such a case is shown in 
fig. 837, where we see two figures of the kneeling Gilgamesh, each holding a vase. 
But quite as frequently we see Gilgamesh with streams represented as a sub- 
ordinate figure, reduced in size. We have an excellent example in fig. 212. Here 
it would seem to be indicated that the god we are considering is not Gilgamesh, 
for in his diminutive stature and holding in his hand his vase, whose stream falls 
into a second vase, he stands close to the full-sized Gilgamesh who plants his foot 
on the head of a reversed lion. A worshiper with a goat stands before Shamash, 
whose foot rests on a conventional mountain, and there are two female deities, one 
Ishtar with the caduceus holding a lion by a leash with one hand and with the 
other holding the scimitar of Marduk; the other an uncertain goddess, de face, 
whose representation is not frequent. 
