324 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
arranged after the style of cuneiform inscriptions; only in place of the inscriptions 
we have in one column three hands, in the next two seated children, in the next 
nailmarks, in the next three ox heads under a crescent, in the next four uncertain 
objects, and in the last three birds. It may be that this cylinder should be classified 
as Babylonian. 






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1036 
The cylinder seen in fig. 1035 comes down into the late Assyrian or Syro-Hittite 
influence. It is a large cylinder and contains three registers. The upper one con- 
tains four recumbent ibexes, the lower contains four ibexes walking, and between 
them is a very rude guilloche engraved with the tubular tool. 
A very neat cylinder, which we may call Syro-Hittite, is shown in fig. 1036. 
Here the guilloche divides the field; above it are three humped bulls and below it 
three lions. 
