300 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
With these cylinders should be mentioned some others in which the fully clad 
goddess stands under an arch or a half-arch or canopy. One of these is seen in 
fig. 933, where a worshiper stands before the goddess, and an attendant behind her 
holds a crook. Above her is the winged disk and on one side is a hand and on 
the other a fish. A heraldic eagle, with perhaps a fly each side, is over a lotus, an 
ibex, and a hand. Another is given in fig. 934. Here the goddess is duplicated, 
each in front view under a half arch, but facing each other, as shown by the feet. 
We must then think of them as a single deity. Beside her stands a single armed 
figure in a high hat, probably a deity, and a running hare, over a guilloche, over a 
lion. Again the goddess en face is doubled in fig. 935, where she stands under an 
arch. In the remaining space are three small draped figures and the Hittite eagle, 
over a kneeling figure attacking a lion. That this goddess en face is the same as 
the naked goddess on the bull is rendered doubtful by fig. 936, where, again dupli- 
cated, she stands on a lion, as if corresponding to the Babylonian Ishtar. We have 
also the god in a high hat, holding what looks like a flower, with a head like a mush- 
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flounced garment and a hat of a type familiar in the Gudea figures. Between them 
is a stand or altar, with food or flame, and various small objects, a guilloche, a 
two-handled amphora, and a small human figure and a hare over a lion, over a vase. 
In these last cases the goddess was en face, but in fig. 937 the fully clad goddess, 
in profile, appears to be the same as the nude goddess. She carries before her a 
long crook, while behind her a figure, clad in the Egyptian shent: and with the atef 
on his head, holds a dove towards her. Before her is a figure like the Babylonian 
Martu. Other objects are a small bird with wings outspread over a bull, over a 
guilloche and a lion, the sun in a crescent, the crux ansata, and the same with the 
stem divided, a club, and a cresent. ‘The form of the sun in the crescent explains 
the origin of the Greek cross on the seal of the Kassite period. 
If there is doubt about identifying this goddess, with face in front view, with 
our nude goddess, we can do so with more likelihood in the case of the nude or 
semi-nude goddess with wings. Such a case is in fig. 938. Here she holds a lance 
inone hand. Before her stands a worshiper with a vase, and besides a crescent and 
a hawk there are two doves, her special bird, over three marching figures. 
In fig. 939 the semi-nude winged goddess holds in one hand the weapon of 
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