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extraordinary figure of a sort of Hercules or Gilgamesh (fig. 780) in which the head 
is in a Hittite conical hat, the ears carry earrings, the shoulders are the fore quarters 
of lions, while the body is made up of two lions with heads downwards and a column 
takes the place of legs. This figure is closely related to other figures of a similar 
deity met elsewhere, but probably not of any special preéminence in the pantheon. 
Of other representations of deities found in sculpture or bas-reliefs, we may 
mention the jolly god of Ibriz (779), decked with bunches of grapes and carrying 
a handful of tall ears of grain. As this figure is well known and has nothing analo- 
gous on any other known monument, it need not detain us, and we can not tell 
whether it was Sandon or some other local Cilician deity that is represented by this 
figure, half a Bacchus and half a Hercules. 
Much more important is the seated goddess of Eyiik (fig. 781). Very peculiar 
is the high-backed chair in which she sits. Such a chair is not known in old Baby- 
lonian art, and we may gather that the Assyrian goddess in such a chair, not seldom 
figured on the cylinders (Chapter xxx1x), was borrowed from the Hittites. Mr. 
Ramsay has noted a second bas-relief of this goddess, found by him at Eyiik, before 
whom a worshiper is pouring a libation. Here compare the seated goddess of 
Maltaya (fig. 782). 

Of the greatest importance for our purpose, hardly second to the figures from 
Boghaz-keui and Eyiik, and more valuable on account of the inscriptions in Assyrian 
and Aramean which we can date, are the bas-reliefs of Senjirli excavated and de- 
scribed by Humann and Puchstein (“Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli’’), of about 
700 B.C. The inscription of Bar-rekub on a statue shows the worship of the gods 
Hadad, El, Rekub-el, and Shamash. Of course, these are Syrian deities, but the 
Syrian and Hittite arts are utterly confused. ‘The bas-reliefs show us, with various 
figures of men and animals, in war and the chase, four figures of gods, who are not 
to be all identified with those mentioned in the inscription, and which may well 
be earlier. They are shown in figs. 783, 784, 785, 786, 787. Of these the god Adad 
is easily recognized by his thunderbolt and ax. The seated and the standing 
goddesses we shall see frequently on the cylinders, and there is a winged deity not 
easily identified, with a bird or animal head. There are other mythological figures, 
a winged sphinx, another composite winged animal, a sphinx with two heads, one 
of a lion and one of a woman; also a lion-headed deity like Nergal (fig. 788) lifting 
an animal by the hind legs and with a bird over each raised hand. All these sculp- 
tures have the Hittite style, the Hittite short garments for the male figures, the 
shoes with turned-up toes, and the dumb-bell-shaped shield. 
It may be well to include in this survey of the Hittite bas-reliefs of their gods 
two figures from Carchemish, or Jerabis, as they are not well known and the only 
