112 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
Probably hardly older than Gudea is the cylinder shown in fig. 308. It is of 
gray serpentine and excellently engraved. The bearded god and the approaching 
goddess have a flounced garment and a high headdress. The led figure is shaven 
and shorn. Under the inscription, which tells us the cylinder belonged to a mer- 
chant named Ur-Nusku, is a bull couchant. 


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For another illustration of the led worshiper compare fig. 309, where we have 
an unusual collection of creatures, a lion, a crane (in fig. 231 it looked, as often, 
like a goose), a rampant, winged monster, and the eagle of Lagash, as also a seated, 
naked figure. The eagle of Lagash is seen on a pole on the cylinder of Urlama, 
patesi of Tello, seen in fig. 39a, where we also see the figure of a goddess rising, as 
it were, with the stream out of a spouting vase. 
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It is easily seen that the design in these cylinders is precisely the same as in 
the two remarkable cases in which the seated Shamash is figured in bas-reliefs, 
the stele of Sippara (Abu-habba) (fig. 310), and that of 
Hammurabi on which he inscribed his civil code (fig. 1271), 
also from Sippara, where the Sun-god had a famous temple. 
In these cases the accompanying inscription leaves no doubt 
of the identity of the god. 
More usually the worshiping figure is not led, but 

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approaches, often following a guide, usually a female figure, like Aa. Occasionally, 
as in fig. 311, we have only the seated god and the worshiper. More usually the 
