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the altar is an offering, perhaps of cakes, and a flame above it. The worshiper 
stands behind the altar, and we have the ashera of Marduk, another uncertain 
object, the crescent, and the seven dots. In fig. 754 the stars, as often, become 
simple dots; there are two worshipers and emblems, the columns of Marduk and 
Nebo, the crescent, star, rhomb, and seven dots of the Igigi. 
In the examples thus far given we have but a single deity represented, and that 
a goddess. More usually the goddess is associated with a male deity. Usually he 
is adorned with rays about his body and stars, much like the goddess. But in fig. 
755 he is seated on a goat-fish, and we seem compelled to see in him Ea, whom we 
would not expect, or a similar deity, possibly Dagon. Before the god stands a 


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worshiper and a second stands in attendance behind him, showing that he was 
regarded as superior to Ishtar, who stands on an animal which may be a dog, as in 
fig. 747. Behind the goddess is an upright object like the back of a chair, with 
stars as ornaments. In the field are a crescent and eight dots. It is unquestion- 
ably the same god seated on a goat-fish that we see in fig. 757, although the cylinder 
is unfortunately broken. But it is clear that this god, apparently Ea, is distinguished 
from the god who, on the same cylinder, stands on a bull. There is a worshiper 
before the seated god, also the “libra”? and rhomb and probably other emblems 
lost with the upper part of the cylinder. This seems to be an excellent example of 
the presumably early, black serpentine, Assyrian seal. With it may be compared 
fig. 756, on which over the goat-fish is the divine seat, and over it a figure of a stand- 
ing god inclosed in a large circle. A worshiper is on each side, one a man and the 
other a woman, and above are the star and crescent. We notice, as usual, no disk 
