348 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
adorned with a tuft. There is also a female figure with a chiton somewhat of the 
Mycenzan type, although not flounced. In fig. 1180 the griffin is seated and there 
is a standing female figure, also a bull’s head. Almost the same is repeated in 
“Salaminia,” plate xiv, fig. 42. In fig. 1181 the woman grasps the tail of the 
griffin, as in fig. 1182 she seizes the tail of a lion. 
There are some cases in which we meet a seated figure, apparently feminine. 
An unusually interesting one is that in fig. 1183. There is a high altar or table, 
on which stands a bird, probably the dove of the Cyprian goddess. On each side 
is a seated figure, in one case in a high-backed chair and in the other on a stool, as 
there was not room for the back of the chair. Apparently the two women are in 
worship, although it is quite exceptional that the worshiper does not stand, and it 
may quite as well be that the two figures represent the goddess before her emblem 
of the dove. We have another example of a seated female figure, who seems to be a 
goddess, in fig. 1184, where the goddess, if such she be, sits behind a griffin. Her 
toes are turned up after the style of the Hittite shoes. 

Occasionally we meet the heraldic eagle, after the Hittite style. One such case 
appears in fig. 1185; on one side is an ibex and on the other one a fish, and a goose 
lifts its head in a very characteristic attitude. There is also the “tree” or “emblem 
of the Paphian goddess.”’ In fig. 1186 the eagle is above a humped ox and there is 
a worshiper with other emblems. But the bird may be more naturalistic, as in fig. 
1187. There are four birds in natural attitudes about a naturalistic tree in fig. 
1188, and there are two personages, one of which, carrying a weapon, is probably 
a god. It is possible, however, that this represents a hunting scene, such as are 
familiar on Egyptian monuments. An interesting example is that in fig. 1189, 
where the bird is somewhat in the heraldic attitude, but without legs, and with 
it are a fish, an ibex, a hand, and six (not seven) dots. 
In fig. 1190 two worshipers appear to present a dove to a third, perhaps a 
deity, who stands between them. 
We have observed cases in which a goddess is seated in a chair. In other cases 
a male figure, which appears to have an animal head, like an Egyptian god, is seated 
