306 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
thought to be a boomerang or throwstick. We have a similar goddess in fig. 960, 
where the goddess is duplicated before a cypress, with three fishes beside her. 
There is a single worshiper of full size, and, under a rabbit, three smaller appar- 
ently female figures. The same winged goddess we have in fig. 961, where the 
winged goddess carries what may be a spear and a worshiper holds a vase, while 
between them is a small stand with an amphora, also a small vase and the sun in 
the crescent. There are two birds over three marching figures, one of whom 
carries a weapon or standard. In g61a the winged figure with a square hat is a 
goddess, and we have the vested god with an ax, the frequent Babylonian, flounced 
goddess, the small, marching figures, and various emblems. 

In alae 963 we hang what is evidently a male winged deity. This is one of those 
peculiar northern cylinders, one end of which is extended to form a handle pierced 
transversely. The god, or genius more likely, carries a basket and stands in adora- 
tion on one side of the winged disk, over a table and a fish, while a fish-garmented 
genius stands opposite on the other side. ‘There are a star, a crescent, the seven 
dots, and a short sword. 
We may include here such a case as is shown in fig. 962, where we see a winged 
griffin following an ibex, over which is a bird, perhaps a goose. ‘There is also a 
single nude human figure, quite in the Egyptian style. 
Another cylinder, hard to locate, but which seems to be of northern, perhaps 
Armenian, origin, is seen in fig. 964. It is of that variegated stone, red and white 
jasper, which belongs to an outlying province of Assyria. A winged deity, in a 
garment reaching to the knees, lifts a winged bull with each hand by the hind leg, 
while he stands on two ibexes, and a running dog fills an upper space. 
These winged figures are of various meaning. ‘Those with animal or bird 
heads represent not deities but mythological genii, like those that we have seen 
about the sacred tree. But the female winged figure is a goddess, and very likely 
the same goddess whom we have seen usually displaying her nudity in the preceding 
chapter, but sometimes partly or wholly clad, and even winged. Where there 
is the case of a winged male deity he is to be assimilated with the winged genii in 
human shape attached to the Assyrian Sacred Tree. 
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