134 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
We have another good example of the plow in fig. 377 from a little different 
point of view, which opens somewhat more clearly the curve of the part of the beam 
attached to the plow. It also shows us a pin which connected the curve of the 
beam with the share. Here again we have the seated bearded god and two approach- 
ing bearded personages, the first leading the second, who brings a goat as an offer- 
ing. We also see the ibex near the mountains, over which is the inscription; also 
a peculiar star and a dagger between a club, or scepter, and an ax. 

Another cylinder in which a worshiper, or perhaps a divine attendant, presents 
the plow to the seated god is seen in fig. 375, in which the curve of the beam at- 
tached to the share is more pronounced still. Here a second attendant leads a wor- 
shiper with a goat for sacrifice, and the seated god has streams issuing presumably 
from a vase by his body, a design to be considered later. Again we have the club 
or scepter. In fig. 376 the deity is a goddess. She holds three stalks of wheat in her 
hand, and before her is an altar of an early type (see Chapter Lxvi) and the attend- 
ant holds the plow downward, as if plowing, instead of carrying it. ‘The worshiper 
appears to have left his offerings, a bird and cakes, perhaps, on the altar and to 
have returned to his work on which the goddess looks benevolently. 

379 
On another handsome seal of lapis-lazuli (fig. 379) we have a different form 
of offering. The worshiper is pouring a libation on two altars shaped like an hour- 
glass. The deity, who seems to be the Sun-god Shamash, holds a plow in his right 
hand. ‘The inscription bears the name of the owner, Amur-Shamash. The name 
of the god represented enters into the name of the owner. 
We occasionally find the deities and attendants ornamented with wheat when 
the plow is omitted. Such a case appears in fig. 378, where the seated goddess 
holds two stalks in her hand, and three bearded figures approach in an attitude 
of respect, the last of them being quite enveloped in radiating stalks of wheat. 
Another such case seems to be seen in fig. 380, where the goddess holds a branch, 
not wheat, and stalks, probably of wheat, are seen in the field. An ibex stands 
rampant before her, and two worshipers bring goats as offerings. Another excel- 
