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of much slenderer build, and in hunter’s dress, as he seizes a bull by the horn, while 
his other hand has no weapon but a whip. This case may encourage us to see 
Persian work in other hunting scenes where there is no Persian dress. 
In Lajard x1x, 3 is a Persian scene. The hunter, with crown and character- 
istic garments, aims his arrow at a lion while another 
lion lies prostrate before him, and a dog, or quite as 
likely a bull, is between the hunter and the lion. In fig. 
1067 an archer pursues and shoots at two fleeing ibexes. 
The peculiar tree with thickened trunk, on a 
mountain, which we see in fig. 1066 and have already 
seen in fig. 676, appears to belong to Persian art, 008 
although this is not certain. Here we have no figure of the hunter, simply a lion 
pursuing a stag, while an eagle above is watching a chance to feed on the carcass. 
The smaller, simpler trees, unbranched, are seen growing near the foot of the larger 
tree. his seal is of a peculiar pink chalcedony. In fig. 1069 the hunter attacks 

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an ibex with a scimitar, while between them is the same tree with a crooked trunk. 
The reader will notice the peculiar sun, lacking the circle, but preserving the cross 
and the alternate water-streams. In fig. 1070 the tree, on a mountain, is between 
the archer and the wild bison at which he directs his arrow. We see in fig. 1071 
. the same tree, but, although allied to the 
cylinders previously shown, this is hardly a 
hunting scene, for the man before the ibex 
and the tree holds a long standard upright, 
at the top of which is a trifoliate object. 
Here the emblem of the sun, like a Greek 
cross, such as we saw in the Kassite seals, is 
to be observed. In fig. 1072 there is no 
hunter—only the two ibexes on the mountains, before a tree with radiating 
branches, under the radiating sun, while behind the ibexes is a heraldic eagle. 
This design might quite as well be interpreted as showing an example of animals 
before the sacred tree. There may be some question whether fig. 1073 is wholly 

