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vases. Above is a star of unusual form, also a small circle in a crescent, and we 
have the name of the owner of the seal. 
We have in fig. 215 another example of the same goddess. We observe the 
same long tress hanging down her back, and again the male worshiper brings a 
goat and also pours a drink-offering on an altar, while two female attendants 
present other offerings. We have also the same star and crescent and a slender 
tree or reed. The goddess carries here a club or scepter as her badge of authority. 
Another example in which the same goddess, duplicated for symmetry, appears 
with her hair hanging down her back is seen in fig. 216, where the consort of the 
goddess, perhaps, Ningirsu, stands behind her on one side and the worshiper and 
female attendant on the other. 



Here, perhaps, we may include an extraordinarily well-cut cylinder belonging 
to an early period, shown in fig. 217. It can hardly be later than Gudea and is 
probably somewhat earlier, as shown by the cypress tree. The goddess wears a 
sort of crown, and her hair is apparently in two long tresses down her back. The 
female worshiper appears to be spinning thread. Her hair is looped, showing how 
the two forms of feminine coiffure were in use simultaneously. This cylinder 
belonged to a woman. 
We have already observed (fig. 127) the altar with a step, or shelf, of a different 
form from the more usual, and very likely later, altar which is slenderer and of a 
shape approaching that of an hourglass. Such an altar stands before the two- 
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horned goddess in fig. at On the altar is a cup apparently with burning oil, and 
two worshipers approach, apparently a man and his wife. The man’s hair is shorter 
and curls up a little behind; but, although the cylinder is worn, we can see that the 
hair of the goddess, as well as of the female worshiper, is long and tied up with a loop. 
The looped hair is the usual coiffure for the goddess and her female worshipers 
in the early period. Sometimes a procession of women approaches her. Such we 
see in fig. 219. We have here the more frequent form of the altar, on which appears 
to be laid a cloth, and cakes (“shew-bread’’) are laid upon it. Above the altar is 
a star, probably here the sun, over the crescent. This cylinder is credited to the 
Museum of The Hague by Lajard, but is not in Ménant’s catalogue of that col- 
lection. Another similar procession of women approaching the goddess is shown 
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