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a spiral, anda stag. This appears to be a very early cylinder of a northern type. 
There is unusual vigor in the design shown in fig. 1088, where the archer in his 
swift chariot pursues a fleeing bull. 
We have in fig. 1084 a more elaborate but rudely drawn design. It is in three 
registers, of which the middle one gives a hunting scene. The hunter is in his chariot 
and is shooting at half a dozen animals and birds before him. One seems to have 
fallen under his horse, while an arrow sticks in the body of a bird above. The 
upper and lower registers are filled with stags. 
Some of these hunting scenes are quite rough in execution, but cut very deep. 
Such a case is fig. 1086, where a hunter in a feathered hat shoots with his bow at an 
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ibex. The star within the crescent represents the sun, as the star of Ishtar is sepa- 
rately engraved. A similar one, and with much the same design, equally coarse 
and deeply engraved, is shown in fig. 1087; this is of terra-cotta. Not quite so 
rude and also probably of the latest period from which cylinders appear, perhaps 
even of the Sassanian period, is fig. 1085. The archer shoots at a lion. Between 
them, above, is a star of late pattern, and below is a peculiar and set form of what 
had its origin in a sacred tree. 
There may be added a few cylinders which give us simply the wild animals 
with no hunter. An attractive example is shown in fig. 1089. ‘There is a tree, much 
of the style we have seen in figs. 1066, 1070, but larger and more naturalistic, and a 
stag walking at ease. Above it is an inscription in Babylonian cuneiform, from which 
we learn that the owner was devoted to the Assyrian god Ashur. In fig. 1090 we 
