144 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
three figures are all in long garments. ‘Two of them, their garments fringed at the 
bottom, sit facing each other, with a large two-handled amphora between them. 
Another such amphora is behind one of them. Behind the other is a row of three 
small amphoras, above which a parallelogram seems to be drawn, filled with four 
rows of circles, four in each row. One’s first thought would be that these are flat 
cakes or loaves. On the further side is a kneeling figure who has both hands resting 
down on an object before him. One might imagine him to be a cook kneading 
bread. In the upper field are a star and a crescent. 
A second cylinder (fig. 392) has somewhat less-developed scenes. We have 
the same man astride the eagle, and the two dogs under him looking up, and a 
man on one side with his head lifted as if gazing upward, although the head is not 
turned back; but the man has a whip in one hand as if he were driving the dogs 
away, though more likely driving his flock. He has also a basket or pail in the 
other hand. On the other side of the dogs is a man with a staff leading a goat 
followed by three sheep, but no wattled sheep pen is seen and no gate, there being no 







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room for it. In front of the shepherd and over one of the dogs is a large amphora, 
and over the other dog a small object, perhaps a basket. Over the sheep is a large 
amphora, on each side of which sits a personage. ‘There is also a crescent, and a 
rectangle with cross-lines, which may correspond to the rectangle with circles in 
fig. 391. The three principal scenes in the two cylinders appear to correspond, 
and we have an additional point—the figure which in the former design had his 
face turned upward here has a whip in his hand. 
A third cylinder of this type is seen in fig. 393. Again we have the man astride 
the eagle and the two dogs gazing up at him, and the man with hand lifted before 
his face and carrying a basket, forming the first scene. ‘There is a variation in the 
scene of the shepherd, who is driving, not leading, his flock of one goat followed by 
two sheep, but with no sheepfold. We see, again, the two figures seated about an 
amphora, and we have the rectangular object, this time again with little circles, 
like cakes, and a man on his knees reaching toward it. This cylinder confirms 
the indication that the rectangle is intended to contain round objects of some 
sort. One might think of the holes in a window for the admission of air; but it 


