Reflec-
tions of
Oriental
cylinder
types:
Gilgam-
esh and
Eabani.

584 INFLUENCE OF ORIENTAL CYLINDER TYPES

as actually serving a divine behest and carrying the quarry in a rna
analogous to that illustrated by the Minoan Genius of Fig. 35s_ f, "er
above. Beside this, on the Plate are set the pair of closely related' des '
in which respectively a daemon guides a bull and a cow.1 These intaop S
and the fine groups above them illustrating lions and their prey may all b
referred to the mature style (L. M. I b) of the First Late Minoan Period

Examples of Oriental Cylinder Designs reflected on Minoan Seal-types.

The general conclusion arrived at in Section 106 a above, that the

scheme of the lion seizing his prey—whether bull or stag—was, in its most

Fig. 573. Bearded Hero (Reflection of Fig 574, Two Heroes combating

Gilgamesh) holding up two Lions. Jasper Lions. Gold Signet-ring : Pekohm

Signet-ring ; Mycenae. From a Drawing by Museum.
Mons. Gillieron, fils.

characteristic shape, of indigenous Cretan origin, does not exclude tne
that in certain cases there are undoubted examples of reaction 01 cy 1
designs of old Oriental tradition on Minoan seal-types.2 We have on )
recall the bezel of the jasper ring from Mycenae, Fig. 573, where a >
the direct reflection of Gilgamesh, holds up two lions, one by ™eJsM
legs and the other by the throat. On a Babylonian cylinder"

the bearded hero holding up two lions in a similar

manner,

this case,

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indeed, both by their hind-legs. Or, again, Gilgamesh is associa

p. 6 (1926). The 'sacral knot' too (fully 21, from drawing by St. Elme '^'j,, from
described in P. of M.,\ (1921), p. 430 seqq.) above). The loin-clothing, kn° Q^jan
becomes 'an object perhaps intended for a with two ends hanging down 11 ^ggure.
stump of a tree or a basket'. fashion, is abnormal for a Minoa ^ ^

1 See above, p. 443 and Figs. 368, a, b. The beavd may here be regal

" Tsountas, Mwrijmi, PI. V; 5 and p. 160, over from the Oriental prototype. WaIl)i

■ Collation de Clerc, Cat; 41 , ^ J4,A
al-Cylindersof Western Asm,?- '

Fig- 154; Tsountas and Manatt, Myc. Age,
p. 160, Fig. 54; P. el C.,vi, p. 842, Fig. 426,

Set