THE SUN-GOD AND THE BIRD-MAN. 105 
in St. Petersburg by Lajard and said to be of white agate. Such identity is not to 
be expected. Besides, the cylinder in the Bibliothéque Nationale is the only one 
known to be made of a “composition of resin and sulphur,” according to Cham- 
bouillet’s Catalogue, and it is apparently of some such material and the hole is 
nearly filled with the composition, showing that it had never been worn. Further the 
design appears to be cut reversed from that in the St. Petersburg cylinder, as if it 
had been engraved from an impression on wax. ‘These facts make me question its 
genuineness. It may be after the style of the casts made by Tassie, “Catalogue of 
Gems 



In fig. 298 again the worshiper at the rear of the procession carries a goat as 
offering. And here again we see the streams and the fish of the seated god and 
the war-club of the second of the two officers. The streams proceed from the 
vase held in the god’s left hand. ‘The scene in fig. 299 differs mainly in the shape of 
the stream in front of the god. We observe the star and the two weapons in the 
held. 
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It is well to observe the cylinder shown in fig. 300 on account of a very curious 
little personage represented in the upper field behind the god. Here there are no 
streams about the god, but the little seated figure behind him appears to hold a 
vase, from the bottom of which there seems to flow a stream of water, while from 
the top there seems to rise a branch, or more likely a flame, toward which the seated 
figure holds his hand, as in fig. 399. Unfortunately this cylinder is very badly 
