Worshiper led by minor goddess toward enthroned goddess

"The type of scene most frequently found on cylinders of the Third Dynasty of Ur shows a minor goddess leading a worshiper by the hand toward an enthroned deity ... The same type of ritual scene was used earlier on the seals of Gudea of Lagash and of his officials. Seal 274 is an example of the latter. ... Seals 275 and 276 show the same features and may therefore also be dated in the time of Gudea. A further distinctive feature of 274 and 275 is the fact that the worshipers are depicted with hair on their heads (the figure in 274 is also bearded); ... The fact that the worshiper has the shaggy hair and beard asociated with Akkad designs may be due to some survival of Akkad tradition in Lagash, where a similar headdress has been found in one of the portrayals of Ur-Ningirsu, Gudea's son ... In another instance, however, Ur-Ningursu is shown clean-shaven and wearing a cap below which no hair appears, this probably being meant to indicate that the head is shorn ... Such a representation would conform to the usual style in Sumerian figures ... The coiffure seen on the worshiper here, recalling that of a medieval page, occurs very rarely in contemporaneous cylinders. Perhaps it denotes a certain rank held at this time by Akkadians, since in both this seal and in Brett 50, which shows a worshiper with similar headdress, the inscription mentions an official with an Akkadian name." Porada, CANES, p. 35-36