CHAPTER LVI. 
OBJECTS REPEATED. 
Certain cylinders give us nothing but animals or other objects repeated. 
‘They may be almost any animal, a frog, a fish, a pig, a fox, or other creature, or 
even a human head. It is difficult to assign the provenance of these cylinders, but 
we can probably attribute them to the outlying territories of Assyria, the eastern 
portion of the Syro-Hittite region. A simple example is shown in fig. 1028, where 
the repeated objects are frogs and birds, coarsely wrought with the wheel. Another 
is fig. 1029 where fishes are repeated. 
Some of these are very coarsely engraved, and such a cylinder as fig. 1028 
might well have been included among the illustrations of rude Syro-Hittite work. 
But such is not the case with fig. 1030, covered with delicate figures of swine, twenty 



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in number, in four registers. Equally we have a delicately engraved cylinder shown 
in fig. 1033, where there are twelve admirably drawn foxes. This is, so far as I 
recall, the second case in which the fox appears on a cylinder. In fig. 1032 there 
are two registers of scorpions. 
We have a curious case in fig. 1031, where, before a short-skirted man holding 
a bow, the rest of the field is covered with thirty-three human heads, as if the owner 
of the seal had put upon it the register of the number of enemies he had slain in 
battle. To be compared with this is fig. 1034. Here we have six vertical columns 
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