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or Assyrian Adad. He holds a club over his head and in the other hand a shield. 
The other god is the Egyptian Set, with the head of the animal, and carrying on his 
hand the forked emblem of serenity. The other cylinder, fig. 806, shows us the 
same two gods, the Syro-Hittite Resheph-Teshub, and the Egyptian Set; but 
between them is the god Horus, surmounted with the wingless solar disk and the 
urzeus. It will be noticed that Resheph-Teshub wears a high helmet surmounted 
by a sort of bulb, such as we shall later see him wear on his head. 
Yet another cylinder of the same general style is seen in fig. 807. Here, again, 
are three figures, of which one represents the owner of the seal, in the attitude of a 
king or warrior, between the two gods, Amon-Ra and Horus. ‘The worshiper 
holds in one hand the shaft of a spear, and wears on his head the ate? and on his 
body the short shent: reaching forward, as so often in Egyptian figures. The inscrip- 
tion, which is admirably engraved after the Babylonian style, might well be 2000 
B. C., and gives us two names which are not Babylonian, and which Oppert reads 
“Sumuch-mikalu, son of Yamutra-nunnia.” 

Cylinders of this type may be more Syrian than Hittite. They are character- 
ized by gods with animal heads and Egyptian headdresses. With these will be, 
perhaps, the peculiar Egyptian garment shenti, protuberant in front. These charac- 
teristics were mostly lost in the later Syro-Hittite seals, although such elements as 
the crux ansata and the guilloche, if that be of Egyptian origin, persisted. We see 
in fig. 808, two such Egyptian figures dressed in the shent:, before them a plainly 
dressed, bareheaded worshiper holding a crux ansata, and behind them the purely 
Babylonian goddess who takes various réles indifferently, whether as Aa, wife of 
Shamash, or Shala, wife of Ramman, or other goddesses. The two Egyptian figures 
are alike, except that one carries a peculiar staff with two simple wings, or convex 
crescents at the top, under the winged disk; and each wears the headdress much 
like that worn by Horus, whether with the human head or the head of a hawk. Here 
the two figures seem to represent the same god repeated for symmetry. 
Another -case is a cylinder found in the Hauran (fig. 809). A worshiper, in a 
simple robe and bareheaded, stands before three figures. The first is a deity holding 
what may be a papyrus staff, and before him is the emblem of life. Behind the 
