cross likewise in a ring, a three-horned cap, an symbol like two horns[1].
A third Egyptian cross is that represented Fig. 16, which apparently is intended for a Latin cross rising out of a heart, like the mediæval emblem of “Cor in Cruce, Crux in Corde:” it is the hieroglyph of goodness[2].
The handled cross was certainly a sacred symbo among the Babylonians. It occurs repeatedly on their cylinders, bricks, and gems.
On a cylinder in the Paris Cabinet of Antiquities, published by Münter[3], are four figures, the first winged, the second armed with what seems to be thunderbolts. Beside him is the crux ansata, with a hawk sitting on the oval handle. The other figures are a woman and a child. This cross is half the height of the deity.
Another cylinder in the same Cabinet represents three personages. Between two with tiaras is the same symbol. A third in the same collection bears the same three principal figures as the first. The winged deity holds a spear; the central god
