GILGAMESH WITH STREAMS. 79 
In fig. 314, an apparently royal cylinder (although the inscription has been 
defaced) of about the Gudea period, we have, beside the full-length seated god, 
worshiper, and Aa, two small figures of Gilgamesh, one standing without streams 
and the other kneeling with streams. 
Occasionally the Gilgamesh-like figure is to be seen holding the vase to his 
breast, but without the streams spouting from it, as in fig. 213. The other figures 
are the standing Shamash with Aa, and Ramman with a worshiper, and a filiary 
inscription. We observe the unusual style of drawing the sun in the crescent, in 
a circle of dots. “he cylinder is probably rather late. 

313 
It is extremely difficult to settle the question whether the Gilgamesh who 
provides the world with water is the same Gilgamesh that conquers wild beasts 
and who fights also with Eabani and even with himself. We have seen indica- 
tions both for and against the identification. It is against it that in fig. 199 
Gilgamesh accompanies the water-god ; and the same is true in fig. 212, but he 
does not himself have streams. One is inclined to imagine that in the other 
world, as a sort of demi-gods, Gilgamesh and Eabani were the attendants of the 
chief water-god Ea, or of other gods, but no such text is known. For further 
discussion of this matter see the chapter on the spouting vase. In Gudea’s great 
text (Zeitschrift fiir Assyriologie, 1904, p. 134) as translated by Thureau-Dangin, 
one of the objects of his temple was an E-nad-da, said to be “like the vase which 
in the totality of countries the pure hero of the abyss holds,” very likely the Gil- 
gamesh, says Thureau-Dangin, as often represented. 
