. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. Fig. 12.—The Hermitage head of a lion, seizing with each of its talons an animal, here anibex. The fabulous bird was developed into what has beenrecognized by Heuzey as the eagle of Lagash, and which appearson the standard of that city. It probably had the Sumerian nameof IM-GIG, as shown by Fig. 13.—The Hermitage In Fig. 13, we have an unusually complete illustration of theelements to be found in the cylinders of an early, but not usually William Hayes Ward 371 the earliest, period, belonging to the Gilg
. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. Fig. 12.—The Hermitage head of a lion, seizing with each of its talons an animal, here anibex. The fabulous bird was developed into what has beenrecognized by Heuzey as the eagle of Lagash, and which appearson the standard of that city. It probably had the Sumerian nameof IM-GIG, as shown by Fig. 13.—The Hermitage In Fig. 13, we have an unusually complete illustration of theelements to be found in the cylinders of an early, but not usually William Hayes Ward 371 the earliest, period, belonging to the Gilgamesh type. We haveGilgamesh in front view, repeated, also the human-headed bullagainst which he fights, and also Eabani fighting a lion. Thereis also a small figure of the worshiper, with space above it for asingle name, but unoccupied. When Gilgamesh and Eabani areboth represented on a cylinder Eabani fights the lion, while Gilga-mesh attacks the more dangerous bull, or the human-headed the later cylinders of this type, of the period of Sargon I, thebull is the huge water buffalo of Southern Babylonia, now foundthere, and at its best, only in domestication; while on the earlier
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