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an interesting object, a sort of scepter, with a looped cord near the top, while the 
other holds a pitcher. On one side of the column is a scorpion, and on the other 
a “libra.” The remaining design has a braided guilloche, below which are two 
lion-headed sphinxes wearing a square crown, and above is Adad facing Ishtar, 
while behind the goddess is a fish. The goddess holds a lion in her arm, and the 
god holds a rod, on the top of which may be a bird, or it may possibly be an ax. 
We seem to have this same god represented in the elaborate cylinder shown 
in fig. 872, although the hat is shorter than usual. Before the god is a small, naked 
kneeling figure and a larger standing worshiper, perhaps; and behind him a small 
nude figure and the full-length figure of the goddess Aa or Shala. In the large 
space are three registers, a procession of four small figures in the upper one; in 
the second a guilloche; and in the lower a “libra” and a griffin mounted on a lion. 
The smaller spaces are crowded with the sun in the crescent, a head, a scorpion, 
and two birds. 
In fig. 873 the god holds a club, or ax, and before him is a winged deity or 
genius holding a staff, while behind the god is the Babylonian goddess Aa. ‘There 
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are the sun in crescent, a star, and in the remaining space an uncertain object 
over a guilloche and a procession of three small figures. A cylinder much similar 
is seen in fig. 874, but we have the god Teshub in place of the god we are considering. 
We have treated this god as unarmed, but in fig. 875 it appears to be this god 
who carries an ax and holds a prisoner by the hair. He is repeated symmetrically 
opposite and still carries the ax, but without the prisoner. Between the two is a 
winged disk with a bird, and in the remaining space the three registers are occupied 
by two symmetrical lions over a guilloche and a procession of four small figures, 
precisely like the one that is seized by the god. ‘This seems to indicate that the 
procession that frequently follows the god does not represent worshipers or soldiers 
as much as captives. 
That this is a principal god is clear, but what name should be given to him is 
by no means equally clear. Inasmuch as the Syro-Hittite deities were interrelated 
with those of Babylonia and Assyria, we are naturally led to ask the question what 
Babylonian god may possibly be identified with this deity; and perhaps we have 
not far to seek. There is one Babylonian god who in his attitude and his lack of 
symbols much resembles this one. Further than this, he was known as Martu, 
god of the West. He differs from the god we are considering in carrying a short 
