172 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
Perhaps more frequently this god leading the bull and carrying a thunderbolt 
holds a weapon over his head. Such a case we see in fig. 458. In this case it is 
clear that the weapon held over his head is the same scimitar as we have seen car- 
ried by Marduk. ‘The bull appears to be of the later humped-ox species, which 
came late into familiar use from India. We see it generally in the Sassanian 
period considerably later. ‘There is a flounced figure, a small kneeling figure, 
a small monkey-like animal, and a small star. Another case in which the god 
holds the weapon over his head we see in fig. 482 in the chapter on Ramman 
and Shala. Behind the god on the bull are the three large dots which probably 
mean the symbol of Sin, the god Thirty, or the moon. Fig. 460 also seems to 
be late, and the bull is very slender. Ramman is also figured. In fig. 461 the 

god rests his foot on the hump of the bull, with his thunderbolt in one hand and 
probably a scimitar in the other. With him on the cylinder is Zirbanit on a 
stand, and Gilgamesh and Eabani are also seen. Another is shown in fig. 462, 
where the god swings a club over his head. Another scene shows a god, probably 
Shamash, and Aa, and a worshiper carrying a goat. In the field are numerous 
emblems, the sun in the crescent, two heads, one that of Belit, the vase without 
the “libra,” two animals, also Zirbanit and a small dancing figure. Yet another 
interesting seal is shown in fig. 463. Here, if we 
can trust Cullimore’s drawing, the horns of the 
bull are peculiar. But we have an important 
feature in the three slain victims of the god. 
There appears occasionally a god with the 
fH thunderbolt, leading by a leash an animal not a 
~~ qa, Dull, which may or may not represent the same 
deity. Such a case we see in fig. 465. ‘This may be, it is true, not a Babylonian 
seal, but a seal from one of the outlying countries. Here it is the same god with 
one hand on his breast, but the animal he leads would be a lion if its tail were not 
so imperfect. ‘The other figures and the whole seal are so peculiar that, while the 
influence is Babylonian, it hardly seems of Babylonian origin. 
In the case, however, of fig. 464 we seem to have a purely Babylonian seal 
that might go back nearly or quite to the time of Gudea. Here a god clothed with a 
headdress and short garment, exactly like Ramman, holds a scimitar over his head, 

