Lilith Cylinder Seal Replica (resin cast). About 1 1/8 inches by 7/8 of an inch. Pictured is a priest standing before a burning altar in front of a seated goddess with outstretched hands and a star of divinity above her. Behind the goddess a woman sits spinning under a large tree that is being bent or pulled down over her. There is a three character inscription separating the designs. The seal seems to show a ritual being performed before Inanna, and the tree may well be from the Lilith myth where Gilgamish, now spoken of as Inanna’s “brother”, agrees to pull up the Huluppa tree that is infested with a serpent in the roots, the Imdugud (orAnzu) bird and its young in the top and Lilith in her house in the middle. All this supposed evil kept the tree from fruition and being turned into a throne and bed for Inanna. A spinning women are very scarce on seals. We know little about Lilith; in some texts she is a sister to Inanna, in others a rival; implied as evil in the core myth, yet she carries the uprooted tree into the city of Uruk for Inanna whom she thus seems to serve. A good translation of this myth is found in Wolkstein and Kramer’s "Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth".