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Here, in an early Akkadian-period cylindar seal, we see the God again seated on his cubic throne, with his now familiar beard and twin flowing river symbols (signifying Autumn equinox) around him; his sometimes turban-like crown appears like horns, on the same level as the crescent, again a sign of Springtime in Sumerian culture. Just below this crescent is a star of 8 stellations. 3 small fish are jumping upstream along one of the God's river symbols, and 3 people, the same height standing up as the God is sitting down, surround the God on both sides. On opposite sides of the God, the two males, who wear beards, grasp downward pointing spears with hour-glass like shapes around their upside-down base-ends. The two men appear to be holding open the partition between them and the God, while the woman on the far left looks in on him.