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Fig. 4
Lion attacking Buli
on Early Sumerian Cup.
Fig. -170. Exceptional
Type on Proto-Elamite
Seal Impression.
ORIENTAL VERSION OF LION SEIZING PREY 529
the carnivore seizes the throat of his victim to drink his life-blood, as
on the inlays of Queen Shubad's toilette box1 (Fig. 474). The lion, here
standing firmly
on the ground,
grips the throat
of an up-rearing
stag.
What is re-
markable, more-
over, is that
where, as on
the early mace-
heads 2 such as
that dedicated
to King Musilim of Kish, there was every opportunity, as far as space con-
ditions go, of setting the lion full on the bull, the cylinder type is in the
main adhered to. A simi-
lar method is adopted in
the engraved design on
the convex panel of a
cup of early Sumerian
date (Fig. 475).3 It may,
indeed, be said that in
the whole series of early
Oriental representations
of the lion and bull group
and kindred motives the
sole example of a carni-
vorous beast leaping on
his prey with the impact of its whole body thrown on to it is to be seen on
a proto-Elamite seal impression, unique in type, of about 3000 B.C. (Fig.
476).* But even in this case the leopard-like animal who attacks the bull
might be supposed to have his hind feet on a higher ground level. His
off hind-foot hardly touches the bull's hind leg.
.(■;
MM**
Fig. 47
mil*
Late Assyrian Cylindki
/
Lion's
hind-le"s
Excep-
tional
type on
proto-
Elamite
sealing.
' Sec C. L. Woolley, Ur Excavations, PL 96,
Text, 276.
" Hcuzey, De'couvertes en Chalde'e, PI. I, ter,
No. 2, Cat. no. 4. L. W. King, History of
Si
umer and AMiad,p. 90, Fi
3 Heuzey, oJ>. fit, PI. XEVI, no. 3 Cat.,
p. 189; cf. King, op. cit., p. 79, Fig. 30.
1 E. Eegrain, Emprciiiies de cachets e'/amttes,
PI. XI, Fig. 172, and p. 50 (Mission Arch de
Perse, Vol. XVI). M. Eegrain observes that
Lion attacking Buli
on Early Sumerian Cup.
Fig. -170. Exceptional
Type on Proto-Elamite
Seal Impression.
ORIENTAL VERSION OF LION SEIZING PREY 529
the carnivore seizes the throat of his victim to drink his life-blood, as
on the inlays of Queen Shubad's toilette box1 (Fig. 474). The lion, here
standing firmly
on the ground,
grips the throat
of an up-rearing
stag.
What is re-
markable, more-
over, is that
where, as on
the early mace-
heads 2 such as
that dedicated
to King Musilim of Kish, there was every opportunity, as far as space con-
ditions go, of setting the lion full on the bull, the cylinder type is in the
main adhered to. A simi-
lar method is adopted in
the engraved design on
the convex panel of a
cup of early Sumerian
date (Fig. 475).3 It may,
indeed, be said that in
the whole series of early
Oriental representations
of the lion and bull group
and kindred motives the
sole example of a carni-
vorous beast leaping on
his prey with the impact of its whole body thrown on to it is to be seen on
a proto-Elamite seal impression, unique in type, of about 3000 B.C. (Fig.
476).* But even in this case the leopard-like animal who attacks the bull
might be supposed to have his hind feet on a higher ground level. His
off hind-foot hardly touches the bull's hind leg.
.(■;
MM**
Fig. 47
mil*
Late Assyrian Cylindki
/
Lion's
hind-le"s
Excep-
tional
type on
proto-
Elamite
sealing.
' Sec C. L. Woolley, Ur Excavations, PL 96,
Text, 276.
" Hcuzey, De'couvertes en Chalde'e, PI. I, ter,
No. 2, Cat. no. 4. L. W. King, History of
Si
umer and AMiad,p. 90, Fi
3 Heuzey, oJ>. fit, PI. XEVI, no. 3 Cat.,
p. 189; cf. King, op. cit., p. 79, Fig. 30.
1 E. Eegrain, Emprciiiies de cachets e'/amttes,
PI. XI, Fig. 172, and p. 50 (Mission Arch de
Perse, Vol. XVI). M. Eegrain observes that