114 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
in the oldest cylinders, will allow of a number of figures. The seated god and the 
four other figures are all flounced and all wear the two-horned hat. Each of the 
three before the god lifts his hand in worship, while the attendant of the god stand- 
ing behind him holds his hands on his breast. Another old and unfortunately 
much worn cylinder of green serpentine, and concave on the face, is shown in fig. 
317. In this case two figures approach the god; a third, nude except for the girdle, 
apparently like Gilgamesh and holding the staff with a semicircle described in 
Chapter Lx1x, stands behind the god as his attendant. A cypress-tree is in the 




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field, but what is most noticeable is the bull apparently leaping into the god’s lap. 
We have a similar case of the bull before the god in fig. 318. He appears to be 
leaping into the god’s lap, as in the last case. ‘The other figures are a serpent, an 
eagle (or vulture), and a lion in the midst of a swamp of reeds. 
An extremely interesting and quite unique variation of this scene appears in 
fig. 319. It is an elaborate scene and the cylinder is extremely well engraved in 
the best style of the Gudea period. Here the bearded god, in his flounced dress 
and his high hat, holds in his hand what is doubtless meant to represent the notched 
weapon carried usually by the standing Shamash. ‘The approaching worshiper 
offers a goat. His garment is not flounced and his headdress is the close cap with 
a thick band familiar in the statuary of the Gudea period. Behind him is the goddess 
with hands lifted. Before the god is the crescent, a full half-circle, and before the 
goddess are the three large dots that seem to designate the number thirty, the number 
of the Moon-god. ‘The two other figures form a second scene, to be separated 
