242 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
The cylinders thus far illustrated have for the most part been cut with the 
free hand and not with the wheel. One of them, fig. 718, was in part cut with the 
wheel; it was probably later and was of chalcedony and not of the softer serpen- 
tine. In fig. 726 there is seen a chalcedony cylinder chiefly cut with the wheel 
and probably belonging to a late Assyrian period. We find the stand represented 
with its four crossed legs and covered with a cloth. On it are a low crater and two 
flat loaves of bread, while above them is a fish. The chair occupied by the bearded 
god shows the legs reinforced by cross-sticks, and the back is ornamented with 
knobs attached, which in some other examples become stars. Behind the seated 
god we see a goddess with four peculiar, curved rays ending in stars, whom we 
shall consider in a succeeding chapter. The worshiper stands before the god whose 
table he has loaded, and in the field are a crescent, the seven dots, and an ibex. 
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and bottom of the cylinder, a fashion comparatively late. Here, again, we have 
a single emblem to indicate who the god is. While one hand is lifted in favor to 
the worshiper, the other holds the triple thunderbolt, for so we must regard it, 
for it can not be thought a star. Wecan then connect it with Adad, or Ramman, 
god of storms, and a chief god of the neighboring people, under his various names. 
In cases thus far considered it is a bearded deity that has been observed. 
Such is the case with the five following cylinders, in which the god is standing 
(figs. 727, 728, 729, 730, 731). These are of soft serpentine and of the style which 
I have regarded as early, that is, well before tooo B. C., and are of course hand- 
engraved. In two cases there is a border line of chevrons, in another a border of 
oblique lines, and in two cases a broad border without the chevrons. In two cases 
a worshiper stands with a fan before a stand on which is an amphora. On the other 
side is the bearded god with his bow and there are one or more small trees, which 
may represent that the worship is paid in a grove. In both there is a crescent 
and in one alsoa star. In fig. 730, a similar one, we have the chevrons, but the wor- 
