ASSYRIAN CYLINDERS: THE SPOUTING VASE. 210 
more is it doubtful because in fig. 656, another very fine cylinder, the kneeling 
figure under the winged disk is bearded. Here there are no vases, but the water 
entirely embraces the god, as in fig. 648. It is also to be observed that the cord 
which usually falls from under the wings of the disk, and which ends in a tassel and 
is grasped by the worshiper, is here also a stream of water. This very interesting 
cylinder belonged to the poet Henry W. Long- 
fellow, who presented it to the Semitic Museum 
of Harvard University; it was one of the seals 
brought to Europe by Rich. 
The man-fish is not frequent on the cylin- 
ders and is not always accompanied by streams. 
In fig. 657 the Assyrian god who fights with 
various mythological creatures grasps by the 
wrist a man-fish on each side. In fig. 658 a 
worshiper stands before the man-fish and two 
streams fall to the ground, or, rather, to a round dot, to which, in the cone seals, 
the vase is reduced, as in figs. 659, 660. Another ill-drawn Assyrian cylinder with 
a god holding a vase with streams is figured in Ouseley’s “Travels in Various 
Countries in the East,” vol. 11, plate xxxvut. 
In fig. 661 the streams are present, while in fig. 661a a hand reaches down to 
touch the goat-fish. Unfortunately the body attached to the arm is lost in the 
fracture. 


Before leaving this subject it is well to call attention, here following Heuzey, 
to the statue of a god in the palace of Khorsabad, as given by Place, “Ninive et 
l’Assyrie,” 111, plate xxx1 brs, figs. 1, 2, and shown in figs. 6624 and 662). The 
streams from the vase which the god holds with both hands fall down his body 
before and behind. This may represent Ea, or, quite as likely, considering that 
there are only two sets of horns to his turban, an inferior deity in charge of the 
waters. Heuzey recognizes the mistake of earlier writers in supposing this to be a 
statue of the Assyrian Sargon. 
