358 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
represented in a menagerie of animals (fig. 1225). ‘This is in two registers, the 
lower with three rams and the upper with two ibexes and a deer. Similar is fig. 
1226, where there are three registers, with three bulls in the lower one, three ibexes 
in the second, and three wild sheep, perhaps, in the upper register. 

Sometimes we have rude human figures, as in fig. 1227, 
where are two seated figures within a border of rectangles. 
We see circles in fig. 1228. 
So far as we can judge these are of no extreme antiquity. 
They are rude enough, but rather unskilled than archaic. 
The Egyptian influence seems to appear, not only in one 
with Egyptian hieroglyphics, but in the material, enameled 
terra-cotta, according to de Morgan. ‘This is certainly surprising and would seem 
to suggest a date as late as the Persian invasion of Egypt. One or two cylinders, 
collected by de Morgan in Susa and which.I have seen in the Louvre, with a 
design much like that in fig. 1095, appeared, like that, to be of a very light-green 
serpentine. 
It has been remarked that fig. 1220 can not well be earlier than the Kassite 
dynasty; but the tablet on which is the impression of a seal shown in fig. 1228a is 

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