CHAPTER XLVI. 
THE HITTITE VESTED GOD. 
At the head of the left-hand procession of Hittite deities at Boghaz-keui (fg. 
776), meeting the goddess in the opposite procession, is a god of commanding 
stature with his feet resting on the heads of two subjected human figures. He 1s 
otherwise distinguished from the gods that follow him only by his prominent posi- 
tion as head of the procession and by his height. He carries no special weapon, 
only in his left hand the club, carried also by others, and the ax in his girdle. He 
is dressed like them in a short garment and a tall, pointed hat. Before his body 
is seen the front portion of the high-hatted animal which seems meant to character- 
durrus. He is evidently a 


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Hittite god of special dignity and authority. No god precisely like him is seen on 
the Hittite seals, but we seem compelled to identify with him a principal deity, 
who appears to have particular dignity, but carries no especial emblem. This 
god we have already seen in figs. 794 and 797, and shall see him further, as in figs. 
924 to 926, in company with the naked goddess. He appears in numerous other 
seals. Such a one is fig. 861, where we see the cuneiform designation for god imme- 
diately behind the god’s head. Here the god in a long robe, with a queue and a 
high, pointed hat, faces the goddess 1n a square hat such as is worn by the goddess 
and her female followers on the bas-relief of Boghaz-keui. The god’s right hand 
is raised, and the goddess holds a vase in her right hand. Behind the god is a wor- 
shiper. There is a crux ansata to the left of each of the deities, and between them 
are two crescents. ‘This is a cylinder that might deceive careless examination. 
Between the two lines of inscription a line appears to have been erased and replaced 
by a sort of column surmounted by a lotus, surmounted in turn by a Hittite eagle. 
It would appear that this was an earlier Babylonian cylinder which was recut with 
Hittite figures and emblems. It is to be observed that the Hittite eagle takes the 
place of the expected winged disk. 
A similar design, but finer and more elaborate, we have in fig. 862. The square- 
hatted goddess again holds a vase, and behind her is a female worshiper, while 
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