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earlier, appears as a fork composed of zig-zags (figs. 712—716)1

Fig. 722. Fig. 723.

or curved lines (figs. 717—723)2; the tripartite, which is found

1 Fig. 712 from a haematite cylinder at New York (W. H. Ward The Seal Cylinders of
Western Asia Washington 1910 p. 128 f. fig. 368 b and in M. Jastrow Bildermapp, zur
Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens Giessen 1912 p. 105 pi. 51, no. 190).

Fig- 713 from a re-cut cylinder (W. H. Ward The Seal Cylinders etc. p. 174 fig. 469).
Fig. 714 from a haematite cylinder in my possession : Ramman seated with the light-
ning fork in his hand.

Fig- 715 from a cylinder (W. H. Ward The Seal Cylinders etc. p. 171 fig. 456 and in
M. Jastrow op. cit. p. 105 pi. 51, no. 189) : Ramman standing on a bull with a lightning-
fork in either hand.

Fig. 716 from a "cylinder (W. H. Ward The Seal Cylinders etc. p. 172 fig. 461) :
Ramman standing on a humped bull with a lightning-fork in one hand, a scimitar (?) in
the other.

2 Fig. 717 from a kudurru or boundary-stone of the time of Meli-Shipak (e. 1204—
1189 B.C.) in the British Museum no. 90827 (L. W. King Babylonian Boundary-stones
and Me?norial-tablets in the British Museum London 1912 p. 7 tf. pi. 21, M. Jastrow
op. cit. p. 14 f. pi. 9, no. 30).

Fig. 718 from a kudurru of the time of Nebuchadrezzar i (c. 1140—1123) found at
Nippur (W. J. Hinke A new boundary stone of Nebuchadrezzar i. from Nippur (The