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unchanged. In G29 a square hearth, consisting of four bricks flush 

 with the pavement, was used as an altar. Near it was a bowl em- 

 bedded in the floor, serving an unknown purpose. 



In Temple G the two edifices were separated by a passage giving 

 access to the northern court (G50), and the gateway between the two 

 courts was permanently walled up. In the adytum of G29 the bench 

 on the northwestern wall was removed. Four rooms were built in the 

 court (G50), and rounded buttresses were added to its northeastern 

 wall. The well and the room housing it were abandoned, but an oven, 

 a storage pit for cereals, and a cooking stand were now provided for 

 the temple attendants. In the southern t<?mple (G53) the rooms 

 located in the court (H20) were rebuilt on a new plan. Some of these 

 rooms were eliminated in Temple B^ which presents no other notable 

 changes. 



Temple A was never rebuilt after being looted by the Assyrians. 

 The passage separating the two shrines was narrowed, some of the 

 rooms in the two courts were rebuilt with changes, and processional 

 brick sidewalks, leading from the main street entrance to the prin- 

 cipal door of the shrine, were laid in each court. In the northwestern 

 wall, as in temple F, a new entrance was opened into the court of the 

 northern temple (G50). 



The cupidity and vandalism of the looters wrought havoc with the 

 decorations and statuary in the adytum of the northern templel 

 (G29). The statue of Ishtar that presumably stood on the pede^stal 

 in G29, judged from a few small fragments that have been recovered, 

 was slightly smaller than life size and was modeled in clay, partly 

 glazed green, and partly covered with a thin sheathing of gold. Two 

 pairs of fine clay lions, one pair couchant, painted red with spots of 

 yellow glazing (pi. 1, fig. 1), the other pair standing, glazed green; 

 a sheep's head and a boar's head glazed green; bizarre angry lions 

 couchant and grotesquely fat standing ones used as jars, all in plain 

 oldiy ; Ishtar figurines and amulets ; and thousands of beads hanging 

 originally in festoons along the walls or set in the mud bricks, 

 adorned the adytum. Most of these objects, however, were thrown 

 into the court by the looters. Many of these ornaments, found on the 

 floors of Temple A, belonged originally to earlier temples. 



The southern temple, probably dedicated to Teshub, the weather 

 god of the Hittites and Hurrians, was far less ornate ; no glazed ware 

 and statuary, comparable to that of the older temple, came to light 

 in the adytum or in the court of the southern temple. 



THE CULTURE OF GA-SUR 



Temples G and F, already described, are the only buildings of the 

 city of Ga-sur (third millennium B. C.) that were completely exca- 



