CYLINDERS FROM CYPRUS. BAT. 
The design, showing a tree with an animal each side of it, is seen in fig. 1169. 
lt is to be observed that one of the two ibexes lifts his foot as if in adoration before 
the sacred tree, and that a third ibex in the field does the same thing. Among the 
other objects are the sun in the crescent and the goat’s head, both familiar in Syro- 
Hittite art, the latter characteristically Hittite. In fig. 1170 what we may here call 
the Tree of Life might about as well be the cuttle-fish, as it sometimes appears on 
the seals (see fig. 798). Here we see an ibex seated each side of the “tree,” under 
a guilloche. There are also the naked goddess and two figures holding a standard. 
Somewhat more frequent is another form of the sacred tree, if we may so call 
that which has sometimes been called, as by Sayce, the symbol of the Paphian god- 
dess. We have an illustration of it in fig. 1171. The “tree” consists of a column 
(which has been taken to be phallic, without sufficient evidence), with a pair of 
curving branches at the bottom and at the middle and surmounted with a crown 


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of short radiating lines. In this case there is a little cross at the top, but this is the 
single case. On one side of the “tree” is a griffin with both front hands lifted. 
There is also a bull’s head. Another similar design is given in fig. 1172, where the 
eriffin lifts but one hand. In fig. 1173 the griffin is replaced by a sphinx, and in 
figs. 1174, 1175, by a lion, and they lift one foot in homage. For other forms of this 
“sacred tree” see figs. 1176, 1177, 1178. In the last case one will observe the 
flaring flounced garment of the female figure and compare it with the similar 
feminine garment worn in the Mycenzan period, as seen often (cf. Perrot and 
Chipiez, “Gréce Primitive,” figs. 387, 388, and T’sountas-Manatt, “Mycenean 
Age,” figs. 65, 66, 84, 155). We can not fix the date of this style of chiton, perhaps, 
further than to say that it prevailed in the second chiliad B. C. Other examples 
of this form of the “tree” may be seen in Cesnola’s “Cypriote Antiquities,”’ 111, 
CX Xe sas . 
The griffin and the sphinx are frequent objects, as we have already seen. In 
fig. 1179 a heraldic lion faces the sphinx which, as is not unusual, has its head 
