136 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
Bau as the goddess of fertility, offerings were made of animals and the fruits of 
the ground, and the early Chaldean New Year’s Day, called Zagmuku, was con- 
secrated by Gudea to gifts to Bau and her husband Ningirsu, called marriage gifts. 
Other figures of Bau are shown in Chapter x1I. 
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We seem to have a statue of this goddess represented in fig. 386. Here we 
have the impression of a cylinder on a round tablet, the seated goddess, with wheat 
from her shoulders, and behind her the standing image of the same goddess on a 
pedestal, surrounded with wheat. What gives special value to this design is the 
fact that it is accompanied by an inscription on which is read the name of Naram- 
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387 
Sin, King of Agade, the successor of his father Sargon the Elder. This carries 
back the worship of images, in the form of statues in the round, to a very early 
period. We may follow M. Heuzey in believing that the standing statue and the 
seated goddess represent the same goddess of fertility, probably Bau. 
But it is a god as well as a goddess of agriculture that we see in fig. 387. The 
god appears to wear, which is most unusual, a lion’s skin and carries a bow. The 
