SUSIAN CYLINDERS. 359 
supposed by de Morgan to be as early as 3000 B. C. Ona large tablet this cylinder 
is rolled over and over twice on the reverse, while the obverse is covered with an 
inscription in what de Morgan calls the Proto-Elamite writing. The design is an 
extraordinary one and can not elsewhere be duplicated. It shows two scenes. 
In one a somewhat humanized bull seizes two lions and in the other a somewhat 
humanized lion seizes two bulls. No such scene is to be found on any Babylonian 
cylinder. 

