WINGED FIGURES IN SYRO-HITTITE CYLINDERS. 305 
have a goddess de face with twisted legs (but no supplemental joint) borne on the 
shoulders of two stalwart naked men, while there is a winged goat-fish each side of 
her head. A sort of Gilgamesh, with four wings, stands on two winged monsters and 
lifts with each hand a sphinx by the hind leg. I have no certainty that this cylinder 
is Syro-Hittite. It may come from quite another race of people, of the wild Arab 
hunter character, if we can judge from the pose and style of the two naked men 
who lift the goddess. Just such a one we see in the magnificent cylinder shown in 
fig. 596, where the hunter is engaged at once with a lion, a stag, and an ostrich. 
In fig. 955 the female winged figure with twisted legs lifts her hands under the 
winged disk. She is supported on each side, as in the last case, by a naked male 
figure. The rest of the design consists of a tree of life, and on each side a deer, a 
sphinx, and an ibex. 
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The winged figure in fig. 957 must be a goddess of superior rank, embraced 
as she is in a guilloche frame. She has the square hat of a goddess and carries in 
one hand the scimitar borne by Marduk, and sometimes by Ishtar, while a long 
staff is held in the other hand. In the remaining space two figures of Aa-Shala 
face each other before the cross of the sun in a crescent, over three scorpions. 
In fig. 958 the winged goddess is closely draped, after the style of an Egyptian 
mummy. A female figure stands in an attitude of ___ 
respect before and behind her, while there is a griffin 
above a guilloche and a humped bull belowit. In fig. 
922 we have observed that the goddess withdrawing 
her garment is sometimes winged, and it may be that 
we have the same deity in a very attractive cylinder 
which is shown in fig. 959. Before the vested god, 
discussed in Chapter xLvu, stands the winged goddess in a short ribbed garment 
with a skirt below it; she has the feminine, square hat. In each hand she carries 
a slender weapon. Under her right hand is a small worshiper. It must not be sup- 
posed that she seizes him by the hair of his head, as it might seem. Between a 
braided guilloche above and below is seen Gilgamesh seizing a lion from behind. 
One should notice the curved club carried by the vested god, which has been 
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