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    and by his hind legs by the man on the left, while a third man behind the animal slays him and a spread eagle hovers over the scene.11 On the left stands a goddess with arms folded and on the right another goddess with both hands uplifted. Above this scene are several figures, reading from left to right as follows: a bow- legged dwarf, a squatting lion, a sitting dog, a squatting goat with head reverted, and a squatting monkey. To the right is a goddess standing the whole height of the seal with folded arms and face turned to the left and wearing a long pleated robe. On the left there is a blank space for an inscription which was never inserted.
  1. (D. 1542). Hematite. Cylinder seal. 16 x 7 mm.
    A divine king dressed like a warrior in a short tunic12 stands between a god- dess wearing a long pleated robe and a naked devotee13 holding her bands to her breasts. To the right of the king's head is a moon-crescent and to the left of his head is a comb-shaped object. Between the naked devotee and the king, at the bottom, is the arm of a balance standing upright.14 At the right there is a blank space for an inscription which was never inserted.
  2. (D. 1543). Hematite. Considerably worn cylinder seal with one end partly broken off. 19 x 10 mm.
    A divine king dressed like a warrior in a short tunic stands between two long-robed goddesses, the one on the left having both hands uplifted and the other only the right hand. Between the latter and the king is a tall pole surmounted by a spool-shaped object. Behind the king are a moon-crescent at the top and a squatting monkey at the bottom. There is a blank space for an inscription which was never inserted.
IX. SEALS OF THE LATE ASSYRIAN PERIOD (c. goo to 612 B.C.):
  1. (D. 1544). Dark serpentine. Cylinder seal much worn at the top. 32 x I I mm.
    A kneeling bowman aims at a winged human-headed bull that is about to attack him. Opposite the bowman's bent knee is a five-pointed star and there is a line across the bottom to indicate the level of the ground. The design is similar to that in A. Moortgat, op. cit. No. 639.
  2. (D. 1545). Chalcedony. Cylinder seal with slightly convex ends. 21 x 11 mm.
    The several figures on this seal, reading from left to right, are as follows: a tree over which hovers a winged sun-disk; then a long-robed standing worshipper with hands outstretched toward the sun; then seven dots to represent the Pleiades, a rhomb, and a fish in a perpendicular row; and finally a moon-crescent, a six-pointed star, and a running fox in a perpendicular row.
11. For a similar scene on an Old Akkadian seal see H. Frankfort, op. cit. Pl. XXIIIi.
12. So A. Moortgat, op. cit. Nos. 321-359; H. Frankfort, op. cit. p. 168.
13. Usually identified as a goddess, but see H. Frankfort, op. cit. p. 160. 		    14. The comb-shaped object is illustrated in H. H. von der Osten, op. cit. p. 49, Fig. 18, No. 59; and the arm of a balance, ibid. p. 41, Fig. 12, Nos. 44, 52, 84, etc. (wrongly identified as a vessel by von der Osten).

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