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to a goddess) is the rod and circle; for this is what Shamash holds in his hand in 
the famous stele of Abu-habba (fig. 310). The seated god on the cylinders 1s also 
sometimes represented as bearing this emblem. In fig. 324 the god, again in the 
high-horned hat, sits on a peculiar seat, the dots in the lower part of which suggest 
mountains, while the middle is a composite animal, to be discussed in Chapter XXvIl, 
on Marduk, to whom it properly belongs. There are the two usual approaching 
figures, the sun in the crescent, a small female figure, apparently a goddess, a club, 
and a curious bowlegged figure holding over his head what may be possibly a 
monkey. It may be that this last is a later, but not modern addition. In another 
cylinder (fig. 325) we see perhaps the same animal under the feet of the god, and 
the goat-fish before him, while behind him is the occasional scene of two naked figures 


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wrestling. The goat-fish is the emblem of Ea. The animal under the feet of the 
god may indicate that he is either Marduk or Nebo. Another seal, which shows 
the seated god holding in his hand the same rod and circle, is seen in fig. 326. The 
god and the worshiper are precisely the same as in the last case, but the god’s seat 
is different, and the other accessories are missing, except the crescent. Yet another 
case of the rod and circle held by the god is seen in fig. 327. This is one of a very 
small number of cylinders in which the texture of the flounced garments is repre- 
sented as in tufts. The god sits with a bull under his feet, and another above his 
hand, while behind him is a third bull. The other figures, apart from the proces- 
sion, do not need to be here discussed. Another cylinder in which the bull is an 
accessory is seen in fig. 328, where it is put under the filiary inscription. 
Another example of this perhaps most frequent of all the designs on the cylinders 
of the Middle Empire is seen in fig. 329, where, besides the three usual figures and 
the sun within the crescent, we have also the vertical serpent. In fig. 330 we have 
more accessories, the three large dots behind the god, the vase over the “ balance,”’ 
