CHAPTER LAXII. 
CYLINDERS FROM CYPRUS. 
At an extremely early period the Babylonian influence appears to have come 
into Cyprus. A cylinder with the name of Bingani-Sharali, King of Agade, son of 
Naram-Sin and grandson of Sargon I., is said to have been found in Cyprus (see 
figs. 27 and 181). Another cylinder found in Cyprus, of the same early date, if 
not earlier, is given in fig. 1365. Another cylinder with Babylonian inscription, 
found in Cyprus by General di Cesnola, is given in fig. 1158. The inscription, as 
read by Professor Craig, is as follows: “Irba-Ishtar, son of Ilu-badu, servant of 
the god Naram-Sin.”’ The sign for god precedes the name of Naram-Sin, the famous 
conqueror who ruled at Agade. But the cylinder is by no means of the age of 
Naram-Sin. The principal figures may be as old as 2000 B. C. perhaps, but the 
smaller objects appear to have been added at a later period. ‘This is one of those 
cases in which we have two separate figures of the god who seems at different epochs 
to have represented Adad, or Ramman. With them is the goddess Shala. 

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In fig. 1159 we have a cylinder of the usual hematite, excavated by Ohnefalsch- 
Richter near Nicosia in Cyprus. Bezold (Zeitschr. fiir Keilsch, 11, p. 191) 1s inclined 
to regard the inscription as of about the ninth century B. C., and the cylinder as 
purely Assyro-Babylonian. It contains the name of the owner and of the god 
Adad, whom he worships. It may, however, be much earlier than this. The style 
seems very nearly Babylonian (not Assyrian), but the design of the sun, with an 
included circle, is entirely foreign, and implies that the meaning of the properly 
included four rays and alternate streams was not understood. The object, what- 
ever it is, over the smaller rampant animal appears not to be Babylonian. Probably 
this cylinder had a local origin, or belonged to the Syrian region, although the 
figures of the standing Shamash, Ramman-Adad, and their complementary goddess 
are purely Babylonian. We should not, however, have expected the two animals 
to be thus crowded meaninglessly in between the deities. ‘This cylinder, found in 
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