180 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
be more roughly drawn; three deep holes are bored to fill out the body, several 
smaller ones for the legs, with an outline about the whole. The tails are quite 
omitted. We observe here the strong erect horns, which seem to designate neither 
the water-buffalo nor the bison of Elam, but a bull more of the form of the 
aurochs. Another cylinder with the double door, or shrine, appears in fig. 485. 
Here we have two ibexes over two hornless animals. It is remarkable that this 
white marble cylinder is unpierced; but it has the two ends indented, as if it were 
left uncompleted or too large to be strung and worn. Usually there is but a single 
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doorway or shrine. A good example is seen in fig. 486. Here, as elsewhere, the 
form of the grand entrance, or gateway, is clearly shown. The central door is in a 
somewhat deep recess apparently, as is very frequent now in the East, where the 
visitor is protected from rain by the depth of the wall; the sides and top we see 
usually ornamented with designs in plaster of Paris. In this case, as in others, 
the ornamentation is with diagonal lines. What the peculiar object is to the left of 
the gateway I can not conjecture. It does not appear to be an ornament on the 
wall, but looks like some implement. There are also several ibexes in various posi- 
tions, but the fracture does not allow us to say how many. In fig. 487 the shrine has 
with it two human figures, one of them, doubt- 
less a female, carries a vase on her shoulders. 
Other illustrations of these constructions, 
whether we call them shrines, doorways, gates, 
or porches, are seen in figs. 488, 489, 490, 491. 
They differ in that some have the door with bars, or in the arrangement of the 
diagonal lines, or in the animals being ibexes or bulls. 
In this connection must be considered another of the same general design, 
and still of white marble, like most of those already figured, shown in fig. 492. 
It has the same doorway, in a recess, and two ibexes. But the peculiar thing about 
it is that instead of being a simple cylinder, it has the upper end conical, or rather 
the frustum of a cone; so that it reminds one of the shape of certain cylinder seals 
of the Syro-Hittite or more northern style. Unlike those, however, this cylinder is 
pierced longitudinally, while those have the hole pierced through the narrow end. 
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