104 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
be in Greece to think of him as drawn by horses in a chariot. The code of Ham- 
murabi has much to say of the building of boats and nothing of the building of 
wagons. 
The bearded god in this seal wears a long, flounced garment and streams 
arise from his shoulders, along which appear several fish, that no one may mis- 
take the significance of the streams. Before the god is a star within a crescent. 
Two bearded figures approach, conducting between them a bird-man. ‘The first 
of the two oilicers has a short weapon in one hand, while the other seems to have 
seized the long queue of the bird-man. The latter has a long beard, the head, arms, 
and chest of a man, and the lower body, legs, and feet of a bird of prey. It is evi- 
dent that he is conducted by force and against his will. 

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295 
An example of the more usual form is seen in fig. 294. The flounced, bearded, 
seated god has streams from his shoulders, and a shallow crescent (in the older 
art the crescent is usually shallow) is over his hand. A bifrons figure leads to him 
the bird-man, grasping him by the arm. The same figure is pushed forward by 
a second officer, who holds a club over his shoulder. Behind is a worshiper with a 
goat and a vertical asp, the head of which is lost through the wear of the stone. 
While the crescent is often put in to fill up the vacant space before the head of 
the god, it is not an essential element intended to indicate the identity of the god. 
This appears from fig. 295, where we have precisely the same design, except for 
the star which replaces the moon and the branch in the hand of the first approaching 
figure, who is not a bifrons. In fig. 293 we had both the crescent and the star. 
In fig. 296 we have the same general design, with the addition of a cypress- 
tree, which is not usually seen except on the cylinders of this early period. In fig. 
297 again we have the same design, except that the following worshiper, with a 
shaved head, carries his offering to the god in a bag over his shoulder, hanging 
from a staff. It is somewhat surprising that a cylinder in the Bibliothéque Nation- 
ale, No. 725, seems to have exactly the same design as this credited to the Museum 
