92 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
as an important but unidentified emblem. See Heuzey, ‘“‘ Une des sept stéles de 
Goudéa,” plate 11, fig. 1. This closely crowded cylinder has another god holding 
an object like a crutch, which may represent the crescent moon on a standard, and 
so be meant for Sin. It is hardly likely that the crescent is a reduced caduceus. 
Before each of the two gods is one large and one diminutive worshiper, besides the 
vase and “libra,”’ a serpent and a tortoise. 
Occasionally also the Sun-god, with foot on a stool, carries a weapon with 
crossbars, somewhat like the Egyptian emblem of stability. Such a case we have 
in the comparatively late cylinder, wrought with the wheel, which we see in fig. 267. 
There is a second god with his foot on an animal and holding a thunderbolt, evi- 
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For yet another representation of the Sun-god between gates we turn to an 
unexpected region. In the opening of a mound near Urumia, in Persia, a few years 
ago there was found in a chamber a little cylindrical pyx of alabaster described by 
me in vol. vi of the American Journal of Archzology, pp. 286-291. The design 
on the surface of the pyx is given in fig. 269. It shows us the Sun-god between the 
two gates, each held by a porter. The god holds a club in his hand. His foot is 
but slightly lifted on an elevation, but the whole lower portion is drawn to represent 
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we see the figure of Eabani holding a standard, while behind him * a second stan- 
dard with a monkey on the top of it. The drawing is heavy and doubtfully Baby- 
lonian, but the design is wholly controlled by early Babylonian thought. It is very 
interesting to find this design and this object, which must be of the earlier, but not 
the earliest, period, at so distant a point as the shores of the Lake Urumia. It may 
be that fig. 268 also belongs to one of the outlying countries, and not to Babylonia, 
although the Babylonian influence is scarcely lost. ‘This cylinder is of black schist. 
The god has rays from his shoulders and his foot is lifted high on a mountain, 
although there are no gates with porters. The ordinary scene appears of the wor- 
shiper led into the god’s presence. What is unusual is the weapon carried by the god, 
