. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. PI. XXIX, 2. Wehave seated Shamash, with streams and fish, and the bird-man,usual to this design. But this is one of the rare cases in whichthe officer who brings the culprit is bifrons, one face lookingrespectfully toward the god, while the other turns to watch hisprisoner. The bifrons is found mainly on cylinders of this age,although it appears in one or two cases on Hittite cylinders which 368 Seals in the Hermitage Museum represent the presentation of the dead soul to the god of is right in regarding the
. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. PI. XXIX, 2. Wehave seated Shamash, with streams and fish, and the bird-man,usual to this design. But this is one of the rare cases in whichthe officer who brings the culprit is bifrons, one face lookingrespectfully toward the god, while the other turns to watch hisprisoner. The bifrons is found mainly on cylinders of this age,although it appears in one or two cases on Hittite cylinders which 368 Seals in the Hermitage Museum represent the presentation of the dead soul to the god of is right in regarding the bifrons as a convention occa-sionally employed to indicate that the oflBcer leading the prisoneris both paying attention courteously to the god, and at the sametime watching the prisoner behind him. In this cylinder wehave another curious feature; the last figure carries a bag overhis shoulder, much as Perseus carries the head of Medusa. Wemay regard him as bringing an offering, but this is hardly a seal in my possession a corresponding figure brings to the. Fig. 10.—The Hermitage god the bird-man, slung by the feet from a stick on his is quite as likely that in the myth the bag had something to dowith the capture of the bird-man. For the inscription, and for an element in the design, it is wellto call attention to Fig. 11, of another cylinder of the we have the not unusual scene of the seated god receiving aworshiper led to him by his attendant goddess. What is unusualis that before the seated god there stands a rampant goat, whichlooks as if leaping into the gods lap, or, it may be, in an attitudeof worship. It is not unusual to have a small indeterminateanimal which looks like a short-tailed monkey or jackal in frontof a seated god, but such a case as this would suggest that inthese cases the animal is a goat. In several cases of cylinders asold as Gudea, or older, we see a bull in the same attitude whichsuggests that then the seated go
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