194 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
but it is not itself important except as the support for the star of Ishtar and the 
crescent of Sin. It may represent, in a corrupted form, the horned turban of the god 
as seen, two or three together, on kudurrus. Those turbans are not distinguished 
by emblems, but they usually represent Anu, Inlil, and Ea. (See figs. 1269, 1271, 
1272.) Here they may be conventionalized, and are then distinguished by their 
emblems, the star or the crescent. The goat-fish, with the raven’s head on an ashera 
above it, in fig. 548, represents Ea. The ashera with a lion’s head in figs. 546, 547 
is meant for Zamama-Ninib. 

These figures have been taken from impressions of cylinders on dated tablets; 
but there are many cylinders whose period may be easily gathered from these by 
comparison, and they give some other symbols. One of the same style is seen in 
fig. 549 which gives us simply the three divine seats on which are the emblems of 
three gods, one evidently Sin, but the others not so clear. The center one looks 
like horns, but may be a form of the thunderbolt of Adad. The deity represented 
by the dog seems to be Bau-Gula. Another ts fig. 550, in which a worshiper stands 
before two divine seats, on one of which is the emblem of Sin and on the other 
that of Ishtar. In 550a we have the emblems of Sin and Adad and a worshiper. 
In fig. 551 the emblems of Sin and Ishtar are both over the divine seat, before which 
the worshiper stands. Behind him is a tree, at the foot of which is a dog, or 

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jackal, and a rampant sphinx stands before three lines of inscription. In fig. 552 
the worshiper stands before a crescent and a dog. This is a very handsome lapis- 
lazuli cylinder. 
An interesting design appears in fig. 553. Here the owner of the cylinder is 
repeated in the attitude of worship before Sin (standing on his crescent) and the, 
emblem of Marduk. We shall find this figure of Sin in the crescent repeated in 
another style in the Persian cylinders. Yet another emblem, that of a gallinaceous 
bird, is shown in fig. 554. Here the worshiper with a vase and a pail stands before 
a table with ox’s feet. The object on one of the divine seats is elongated, and on it 
is the crescent of Sin; on the other is the bird. Of what deity it is the emblem is 
not yet determined. In fig. 555 we have a similar figure of a worshiper before a 
symbol of the god Sin, and the inscription giving the name of the god. In fig. 556 
