eae SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
to identify the animal or to tell what god it belongs to, if any. But in fig. 332 it is 
evidently a goat. 
The general conclusion from the study of the cylinders which give us one or 
more figures approaching a god without rays or streams, whether led by the hand 
or not, is that generally the god is Shamash, who was the most popular, the most 
worshiped, of all the gods of the Babylonian pantheon. His worship was not 
local, but general. It was his image that Hammurabi himself, devoted as he was 
to Marduk, put at the top of the stele which he set up at Sippara and on which 
he inscribed his laws, and before whom he approaches in the attitude of worship 
usual on these cylinders. It is probable, however, that other gods were also repre- 
sented as seated and receiving worship, and particularly that Sin is so represented 
when accompanied by his special emblems, and Ea when accompanied by his 
emblem of the goat-fish. 
