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between the boar and a rampant ibex is the plant which may be the silphium. In 
fig. 1098 we have a well-drawn figure of a humped cow suckling her calf. This 
seal is clearly of the Persian period, as shown by the winged disk by the crescent. 
Another very similar, but without the disk and 
crescent, belongs to the British Museum. In fig. 
1099, which is also drawn with great vigor, we 
have a lion and bull in fight. The cylinder allows 
a double action to the bull, which, fallen on one 
knee, is attacking the lion before him, while it 
kicks at the same lion behind. This cylinder is 
of variegated red sard and chalcedony, and I 
believe came from a northern Armenian region. 
It may be allowable to include in this chap- 
ter several cylinders on which we see mytho- 
logical, winged creatures fighting wild animals, 
probably not Persian, but belonging to one of 
the more northern outlying countries. One such 
is seen in fig. 1100, where a composite “dragon” 
has forced a bull down on its knees. Over a 
kneeling worshiper is a winged disk, apparently , 
not Persian, also a six-pointed star and another ~— i100 
of many points. What the square object is under the winged disk it is not 
easy to Say. 
Fig. 1101 gives us simply a winged lion fighting a bull; and in fig. 1102 we 
have it reversed, a winged bull fighting a lion. 
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1101 
We may conclude this series with fig. 1103, where an archer with his youthful 
attendant aims at a mark. This reminds us of the biblical story of Jonathan, with 
a lad as armor-bearer, aiming at a mark to give information to his friend David 
of Saul’s attitude to David, as the story is told in I Samuel 20: 20-24. ‘This is an 
unusual instance to show the construction of the arrows, as five of them are fully 
drawn. 
