MISCELLANEOUS SYRO-HITTITE CYLINDERS. 319 
scorpion, and a small crescent. Another very peculiar cylinder, for which I can 
find no real parallel, is to be seen in fig. to12. Here are three figures, each nude 
except for a girdle, the two ends of which hang down. They have long hair falling 
over their shoulders, and two of them are apparently fighting with short swords, 
while the third holds a spear. ‘There is a guilloche with an ibex couchant above 
and another below it. There is also a crux ansata. 
It must not be a matter of surprise that, with the paucity of inscriptions and 
other literary material available for instruction, and the variety of districts from 
which these Syro-Hittite cylinders come, we find not a few which, while they are 
interesting, we can not classify or interpret. They represent mythological concep- 

tions of which we are still ignorant. We can not be certain who is the god or who 
the two gods represented as worshiped in fig. 1013. One of them, before whom a 
goddess like Aa stands in adoration, looks like Marduk. In fig. 1014, a cylinder 
from the Hauran, there seem to be Egyptian resemblances. The winged disk, with 
rays in place of a tail, is utterly unlike what we see in any other known cylinder, 
except a Cypriote cylinder shown in fig. 1168, but it suggests the rays with hands, on 
the solar disk, as worshiped by the heretic king of Egypt. ‘The seated deity and 
the figure approaching and offering fish have the head of a dog. There is a second 
small worshiping figure and also a small simple tree. Fig. 1015 is peculiar, because 
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two small nude human figures with face turned upward and one arm lifted in petition 
seem to beg their life of a nude goddess who has her two arms reached above them. 
She holds in one hand the standard to which one of the small figures seems tied by 
the wrist, and above which are the crescent and disk. T'wo griffins, two lions, a bird 
and two other uncertain objects fill the space of three registers. In fig. 1o15a we 
have two griffins facing each other, with a tree of life above and a prancing lion 
below. Back of them is the rope-pattern which includes three rosettes, while stand- 
ing on it are two figures in a definitely Hittite dress and with a Hittite queue, who 
hold a lotus, apparently, each toward a small flounced figure who stands over the 
wing of the griffin. 
