Bamboula (…“Seal impressions…”) Benson 1955Jack L. Benson

Weitertruthern nous. H. Frankfort Mesopotamie Syria & Egypt & their Earliest Interrelation London 1924 Pl. X

Syria Vol. XV 1934 P XLI No. 1 sarcophagus with two. column

" 1-2 1920-21 series of articles by Pottier on Hittite art with many drawi-gs. IV 1924 Pl. XVI- sarcophagus VIII " Pl. 31

IX R. Dussaud Observations sur la ceramique du II^e millenaire avant notre ère. p. 131 X Przeworski, Stefan Le Prototype local des animaux grimpants dans l'art de l'Asie antéreure, p. 85

XIV p l. VII pp. 68 lemon pictures

PW. (Grosen) sv under Robbe This might be a not sane illustration of the illegible which stood at the beck and call of Proteus; in any case, the Odyssey pass mone proves that seals were known could be encountered [illegible] in the Mediterranean in pre-classic times

4. O. Keller Die Antike Tierwelt I (Leipzig 1909) 407

O. Keller Tier u. Pflanzen bilder auf Münzen u. Gemmen IV 22-24 CJ 265 I 6 + B M VI A 21

The ultimate origin of the motif could certainly be Near Eastern; animals flanking a plant

( H. Frankfort, Cylinder Seals (London 1939) 205. Nevertheless, even within the Oriental tradition the motif of birds flying flanking a plant is not usual, though it does occur, as on a Cypriote classified as a Hittite. cylinder seal, in the Louvre, assigned roughly to the 2^nd half of the first millennium)

L g, Contenau La glyptique syro-Hittite Paris 1922 Pl. XXX: 201 and p. 158

C. Krüger Der fliegende Vogel in der Antiken Kunst bis zur klassischen Zeit Inaukenburch 1940, p. 16. Since this is a as a mythic theme essentially unsuitable for anything but

cylinder seals, we might well expect the motif to occur even less often on ^Minoan glyptic which as a matter of course preferred [illegible] and [illegible] gems and intaglios. Nevertheless, the elements * The actual juxtaposition of birds and plant (not treelike) occurs only dagger blades from Mycenae/ g. Karo Schachtgräber Pl. XC III 765 [illegible] Egyptiani^zing … continues