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This highly stylized, late Akkadian-period cylindar-seal impression commemorates the coronation of Gudea over Lagash, and shows the same scene as before, wherein the God is seated on the far right, on a cubic throne, surrounded by Autumnal river-symbols. The three people are, again, the man holding the other man by the wrist, both followed by the female supplicant, seen here wearing a crescent-horn crown. The man dragged by the other man is bald and wears a mild toga, while the man dragging him toward the God is bearded and wears an identical crown to the God. In this depiction, the God is shown passing over from his hands unto the crowned man a small vase containing a plant. Behind the woman's back on the far left creeps Tiamat, the winged, 4 legged serpent.