334 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
have, with the crooked trunk of a branching tree on a mountain, a very vigorous 
representation of a bounding stag. Near the tree are three small branches or 
plants, with a bird resting on one of them. ‘The vigor and beauty of this design 
could hardly be surpassed. 
The arrangement of the cuneiform inscription, at the top and bottom of the 
design, is peculiar in fig. 1091. ‘The inscription is not reversed in the cutting, 
which seems to show that it is an amulet as well as a seal. The design shows a 

lion attacking a bull. There is also a palm-tree, on one side of which sits a 
dog, while on the other is a locust in a human vertical position. ‘There is also 
the lozenge (Egyptian eye?). In fig. 1092 we have a leaping bull, with long 
horn, like the aurochs, and a large rayed circle and the seven dots of the 
Igigi. ‘This is comparatively late. Fig. 1093 shows us two lions, of Persian style, 
facing each other. Fig. 1094 gives us two lions attacked by four dogs, the figures 
drawn with considerable rude spirit; this is an unusually thick cylinder. Fig. 







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1095 is engraved with the utmost coarseness and represents a cow and calf. It is 
interesting solely because it is of a peculiar light serpentine of the sort of which de 
Morgan found several larger cylinders at Susa, and of the same shape as this. 
Another cylinder, extremely rude and very deeply cut, is shown in fig. 1096. This 
is not clearly a hunting scene, although behind (or before) the chariot is a lion, as 
well as a man and a scorpion. Fig. 1097 shows nothing but an extremely well- 
drawn humped bull. In 1097a the Persian winged disk is over a wild boar, and 
