86 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
long ranges of folds of the elaborate turban, the long hair as on the cylinders, the 
flounced garment, and the necklaces and the front view. She seems in this case 
to be quite as important as the god. 
A date for these figures of Bau is fixed by the impression of a seal on a tablet 
in the Louvre shown in fig. 45 and described by Heuzey in Revue d’Assyriologie, 
Iv, p. 5. The inscription gives the date and name of the Elder Sargon. It is a 
very large cylinder. It has the usual scene of a single worshiper before the goddess 
as the space is taken with four inscriptions. Her hair is looped behind and her 
hands are folded. The female attendant behind her has her hair in a long tress 
and carries perhaps a load from the staff on her shoulder. ‘There is also the cypress 
tree frequent in the earlier art, but never appearing in the cylinders of the late 
Middle Babylonian period. 
The goddess Bau, or Gula, seems to have been chiefly honored in the early 
period. But the period of the kudurrus, of the date of the Kassite dynasty, shows 
that the goddess had not lost her value in the second millennium B.C. Still even 
on the kudurrus she was not a usual accompaniment. No other goddess had -any 
equal chance of persistent honor except Ishtar. It is sometimes said that the Baby- 
lonian and Assyrian worship tended toward monotheism; it certainly tended to a 
single goddess, whether Bau or Ishtar. 
