It would be difficult to imagine anything betterfitted for objects of a talismanic character, which were also to beused for the special purpose of these cylinders. Whenever theChaldaean put his seal upon clay he renewed the act of prayer andfaith which the engraver had figured upon it ; he took all… … Fig. 143. — Chaldaean cylinder. Green serpentine. Louvre. Drawn by Wallet. son Dungi,1 princes in whom the oldest Chaldœan royalty wasembodied. Both of these seals seem to have been engraved inUr, the home of that dynasty. We have given several othervariants of the same theme (Vol. I., Figs. 17—20,…
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