322 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
Another cylinder, like the last from the fine collection of Mrs. Henry Draper, 
shows how these Syro-Hittite designs might be confused past all disentangling. 
In fig. 1027) the short-skirted figure to the right, with a possible palm branch over 
his shoulder and a bunch of flowers in the other hand, may be Teshub. The middle 
figure, in the attitude of Shamash, carries apparently throw-sticks in one hand and 
the caduceus of Ishtar in the other. The third figure may be a worshiper, but he 
seems to have in one hand the scimitar of Marduk and in the other two serpents 
such as are carried by the Hittite kings. The field is crowded with all sorts of 
emblems, an Egyptian vulture, a Hittite hare, a Phenician hand, a Babylonian 
“libra,” a sphinx, and various other objects, the artist’s only purpose being to leave 
no vacant spaces. 
Another cylinder (1027c) may be included here especially for the very rare 
material, which is glass. Here an apparently worshiping figure stands before an 
ibex over a griffin, while above are two rhombs. The arrangement of the animals 
is much like the Hittite style, and yet this might perhaps with as much probability 
be classed with the Kassite cylinders of Chapter xxxuI. 
