350 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
the Jewish candlestick on the Arch of Titus. In fig. 1204, almost exactly repeated 
in “Salaminia,” plate x11, 24, we see the “cushion” on each side of the standing 
figure, besides the larger one with the disk. 
A few miscellaneous cylinders may be added. In fig. 1202 are three bird- 
headed figures, two of them two-headed, lifting two animals like fawns by the hind 
leg, and with the hand on a figure like the “symbol of the Paphian goddess,” shown 
in figs. 998, 1001. In fig. 1203 we have the unusual representation of a wild boar, 
as well as of a lion, a disk with four wings, and an object like a candelabrum. It 
would be difficult to explain the four hourglass-shaped objects in fig. 1201. In 

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hig. 1205 we observe two objects, one with two cross-lines and the other with three, 
which suggest the Egyptian emblem of stability. We have the same in fig. 1026. 
The general rudeness of the native Cypriote art is due, in large part, to the 
material of which the seals were made. It is the soft serpentine, which cuts too 
easily to encourage slow and careful engraving. There is a sharp contrast between 
the numerous finely engraved hematite cylinders of Syria and the equally numerous 
coarse cylinders of Cyprus. It is true that we have a series of rudely cut Syro-Hittite 
cylinders, cut with the wheel, which may be contemporaneous with these (see 
Chapter Lv). As to the age of these cylinders from Cyprus we have little informa- 
tion. It is likely that most of them belong to the later Mycenzan period and the 
period immediately following it. 
