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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...example (Fig. 153). In the centre a personage holds up two nondescript animals 1 Art in Chaldaa and Assyria, Vol. I. Figs. 38-85. 2 Ibid. Vol. II. Figs. 58 and 59. by the hind legs; the attitude is that of Artemis Persica. Right and left there are two men of unequal stature, some real and fictitious animals, crosses, bull's heads, globes, and other objects difficult to define. A still rougher design is to be seen on another cylinder from the same place, the field of which is divided horizontally into three sections (Fig. 154). It is little more than a sketch with the point, Fig. 153.--Hematite cylinder. From A. di Cesnola.1 but at least its general sense may be grasped; the engraver has figured the hunting, capture, and immolation of a gazelle. In the upper division we see a gazelle and two hunters; in the next the same animal stands between the hunters with an arrow in its breast; in the third, one of the hunters has sacrificed the gazelle to a seated god and hung up its head in the temple. Many of these cylinders appear to contain allusions to the great deity worshipped at Paphos. A clear instance of this may be seen Fig. 154--Steatite cylinder. From A. di Cesnola.5 in one from Salamis of fairly careful execution (Fig. 155). Two figures with raised arms offer doves; the third figure can only be that of the goddess; behind her a lion and a griffin, both sitting, are introduced. Not a few of these same gems have an object engraved on them which we may, perhaps, identify with one of the forms under which the Cypriot Astarte is figured, namely the 1 Salaminia, plate xii. 2 Ibid, plate xiii. image which is a cone beneath and a roughly-suggested woman above (see Vol. I. Figs. 29, 199, 232, and the tail-piece to Chapter IV.). We think that something of this kind...