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or standing and holds a short spear, which might rather be compared to a spade. 
We see it in fig. 1191. There is also a second figure with a similar head. Other 
objects are a serpent, an uncertain triangular object, and an ox’s head over a curious 
object shaped like a skate’s egg. Three other cylinders (‘‘Salaminia,” plate x11, 
figs. 23, 25, 26) have almost precisely the same design. In fig. 1192 two figures are 
standing, one each side of a tree, and the spade-like weapon stands beside them. 
This design is duplicated with slight variations in “Salaminia,” plate x11, fig. 21. 
It may be the same weapon, although lacking the cross-piece on the handle, with 
which in fig. 1193 a hunter, accompanied by a dog, spears an ibex. The hand is to 
be observed. 
Mention has been made of a figure like a skate’s egg, cushion, or shield, square 
with concave sides. It is usually connected with a circle. So we find it in fig. 1194. 
There are not less than three of these objects, and over the largest one are a crescent 

and a circle. There are also a tree, an ox’s head, ti other smaller objects. The 
crescent and the circle probably represent the moon and the sun, and one might, 
in this case, suppose the “‘cushion” to represent the stand on which it rests. But 
this conclusion hardly agrees with the arrangement in fig. 1195, where the “cushion” 
is repeated and is between two circles. Perhaps we have a more developed form of 
the same object in fig. 1196, where it looks more like an altar, or stand. In figs. 
1171, 1174, the object, which appears to be the same, appears to be an altar for 
holding oil, etc. It is hardly beyond question that it is such an altar that we see in 
figs. 1197, 1198, with a worshiper on each side of it. But when we see a case like fig. 
1199, in which the two forms appear, one is left in doubt. We add a single other 
example (fig. 1200), in which the cushion is accompanied by the crescent over the 
disk, and with it are a man, an ox’s head, and a seven-branched tree, much like 
