MISCELLANEOUS SYRO-HITTITE CYLINDERS. O17 
There are some cylinders notable for the extreme minuteness and crowded 
complexity of their design, which we are compelled to regard as from the Syro- 
Hittite region. They are wrought in part by the point and in part by the wheel. 
Such a one is to be seen in fig. 1oor. It is in two registers. The upper one has two 
kneeling figures of Gilgamesh facing each other under a winged disk and a large 
rosette; then a vase and a “libra’”’; a winged figure with two lion heads; another 
winged figure with two antelope-heads and holding an antelope by the hind leg 
with each hand; then two short-skirted figures, each carrying a goat on his shoulder, 
while an ibex walks by his side. The second or opposite register, for the figures 
are reversed, is separated from the first by a series of small, close circles, each 
inclosing a dot, all made with a cylindrical tool, and together forming a guilloche. 
It contains a seated deity, before which is a rampant ibex (?); an animal-headed 
figure holding a javelin; a winged figure with two animal heads lifting two ante- 
lopes by the hind leg; a short-skirted and a long-skirted figure lifting animals, 
perhaps one of them a man lifted by his leg; and finally, a lion-headed figure 
holding a long spear or staff. The short-skirted figures seem to be masculine, 
while the long-skirted figures seem to be feminine and are winged, except the 
seated goddess. It is possible that both these scenes belong to the underworld, 
and so should be connected with Chapter XLVI. 
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Another of this type is given in fig. 1002. The upper register has a sacred 
tree with an ibex each side of it, a flounced figure (probably Aa-Shala), a rampant 
bull with human head and high Hittite hat, the naked goddess, and a deer couchant. 
In the lower register are Marduk and Aa-Shala, with a rampant ibex between 
them, a winged sphinx and other animals. One observes, as in the last case, the 
abundant use of the tubular drill. One would imagine the cylinder shown in fig. 
1003 to have come from the same atelier. ‘The tooling and the sacred tree (may 
it be a cuttle-fish ?) are the same, but the registers are separated by a guilloche. 
In the upper register a naked winged goddess lifts a reversed lion by the hind leg 
and is flanked on each side by a figure like Marduk; another figure, not winged, 
similarly lifts two lions, and beside him is a long-skirted figure, probably feminine, 
with wings covering the legs; and each side of these two figures is a worshiper. In 
the lower register is the sacred tree (or cuttle-fish) with an ibex each side, one of 
which seems to be attacked by a man; and there are also a sphinx, a lion, and other 
animals. 
Very much finer in execution is fig. 1004. An elaborate guilloche separates 
the two registers. In the upper register two seated sphinxes face each other and 
there are four scorpions. In the lower we have the same four scorpions, with 
a small couchant gazelle and also, as a very unusual motif, quite Greek in its 
effect, two nude athletes struggling, and each seizing the other by the ankle. It 
