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The facture of the guilloche will be observed in fig. 896, on which are three 
figures, one of which is winged and lifts two ibexes; one stands and holds a weapon; 
and one is on his knee and strikes a spear at the head of a lion below him. 
But these are unusually elaborate specimens of this style. Somewhat better 
than the average is fig. 25, where the sacred tree is quite as likely to be the cuttle- 
fish. The guilloche can hardly be recognized in its circles, but Zirbanit is clear, 
as are the sphinx, the ibex, and the scorpion. In place of a deity in human form 
we have in fig. 988 the winged disk over a column, guarded by winged animals. 




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It will be observed that the cylindrical drill makes a fine curve to the tail, and 
always the same. We have in fig. 989 the guilloche and the winged disk, and of 
the animals a lion is recognizable. Fig. 1046 will give us a study of the guilloche 
and fig. 990 of a little zoological garden. It may be well to give half a dozen other 
illustrations, of which a hundred might be chosen. Such are fig. 991, where the solar 
disk has become a wheel; fig. 993, where the curve of the lion’s tail makes him into 
a dog; fig. 992, a silver cylinder, on which the objects of the lower register are past 
guessing; fig. 994, with its animals and its winged disk; fig. 995, with its two figures 
holding a sort of standard; and fig. 996, with its nude goddess. 
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While these cylinders are of very little value either for their art or their mythol- 
ogy, their number gives them importance and they indicate a general culture which 
required that men of the humbler positions found it necessary to have a distinctive 
seal; and it shows the interest taken in animals, which very possibly entered into 
the name and the worship of the owners. As we have such names as Lyon, Lamb, 
and Kidd, so a man whose name was Frog might cover his seal with frogs. We 
shall see in figs. 1030 and 1031 seals entirely covered over with pigs and foxes, and 
the names of Hogg and Fox are familiar to us. 

