[107] In the possession of Lord Amherst of Hackney. On an early Babylonian seal-cylinder, bought by Dr. Scheil at Mossul and figured in the _Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l’Archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes_, xix. 1, 2, No. 7 of the plate, we have: “Ili-su-bani son of Aminanum, servant of the gods Bel and Anupum.” Aminanum may be a Semitized form of the Egyptian Ameni. [108] Pp. 133, 139, 485. [109] De Morgan, _Recherches sur les Origines de l’Égypte_, p. 65. [110] Scheil, _Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l’Archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes_, xix. pp. 50, 54; Sayce, _Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia_, p. 485. The dwarf is represented as dancing before the god Sin on an early Babylonian seal-cylinder published by Scheil in the _Recueil_, xix. 1, 2, No. 16 of the plate. [111] It is worth notice that the dwarf-god Bes, who is called “God of Punt” in inscriptions of the Ptolemaic age, appears on Arab coins of the Roman period (Schweinfurth, _Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde 1889_, No. 7). [112] Layard, _Monuments of Nineveh_, Second Series, pl. 15. [113] Herodotus, i. 193. [114] The rope appears to have been _makutum_; see _W. A. I._ v. 26, 61. [115] K. 56, ii. 14. [116] For other evidences of contact between primitive Babylonia and early Egypt, see Heuzey in the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1899, v. 2, pp. 53–6. He there enumerates (1) the resemblance between the stone mace-heads of the two countries in “prehistoric times,” as well as between the flat dishes of veined and ribboned onyx marble, hollowed and rounded by the hand; (2) between the lion-heads of stone, the onyx stone of one of which is stated in an inscription to have come from Magan; (3) the extraordinary likeness in the delineation of animal forms, which extends to conventional details “like the two concentric curves artificially arranged so as to allow the two corners of the profile to be visible at the same time”; (4) the use of a razor and the custom of completely shaving the face, and even the skull; and (5) the ceremonial form of libation by means of a vase of peculiar shape, with a long curved spout and without a handle. This libation vase was practically the same in both countries, in spite of its peculiar and somewhat complicated form. Of later introduction into Egypt was the inscribed cone of terra-cotta, which was of early Babylonian origin, but is not met with in Egypt before the age of the Twelfth dynasty. At any rate, the first specimens of it hitherto found there were discovered by myself at Ed-Dêr, opposite Esna, in 1905 (_Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte_, 1905, pp. 164–5). [117] _Recueil de Travaux_, etc., xvi. p. 190. [118] In the later bronze or “Mykenæan” age the seal-cylinders are of a different type, and are engraved on a black artificial paste resembling hæmatite (Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter, _Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum_, p. 32).