220 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
fruit-like cones. Although Perrot and Chipiez (Histoire de |’Art, 11, 509) have the 
tree also on the king’s helmet, with a crouched animal each side, I can see nothing 
of the sort on the photographs. The other ornaments are rosettes, lines of angles, 
and curves. While the king was Babylonian, he had relations with Assyria, and 
his garments look Assyrian. 







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668 
So far as we can judge, fig. 665 comes from one of the older cylinders which 
give us a tree of life with figures, in this case a rampant bull on one side and a 
winged dragon on the other. The wide border of angles (chevrons) belongs to an 
early period. Here the tree is evidently the date-palm, par excellence the fruit-tree 



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