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scepter in his left hand, held against his body, and in the shortened headdress. We 
see him in the usual Babylonian style in fig. 876, but the accessories are purely 
Syro-Hittite in the latter case. Between the two symmetrical figures of the god 
is the heraldic Hittite eagle over, not a tall column as seen in figs. 861, 863, 867, 
but a shorter altar. Behind the left-hand figure of the god is the female worshiper, 
or goddess, carrying what may be a spindle, and between them is the crux ansata. 
In the remaining space is a bird, over a guilloche and an ibex and a slender vase. 
Another cylinder, also said to be from the Hauran, is seen in fig. 877, where the god 
carries in one hand a spear and in the other a club and a boomerang. ‘The vested 
goddess opposite also has the club and boomerang. ‘There are an altar with cakes, 
a columnar altar, the winged disk; also a griffin and an ibex over a guilloche, which 
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is over an ibex. It is not at all unlikely that the Babylonians, at a period succeeding 
Gudea—for, as we have shown in Chapter xxxI, this god was introduced from the 
west and was not original in Babylonia—found this to be a principal god among 
the deities they met in their raids towards the Mediterranean, and called him “God 
of the West,” Martu, Ramman, or Adad. And yet he is not the real Adad; that 
is another god, also borrowed from the West, the god with hand uplifted holding 
the thunderbolt or other weapon and leading a bull by a cord, also familiar in both 
the Syro-Hittite art and in that of Babylonia, following the period of Gudea. 
These two gods seem confused in Babylonian thought, and we have found it difficult 
to separate them, however separated completely in their representation. 
I have wished that it were pos- 
sible to call the god with the bull 
and thunderbolt Adad, and give the 
name of Ramman to the god vath 
right hand withdrawn and left hand 
holding the scepter to his breast, 
and who is called Martu. If we 
have no clear evidence as to what name he bore among the Syro-Hittites, we may 
presume that he is very likely Tarkhu, or Sandu, in the West, or, even more likely, 
Khaldis, the principal god of Van, while in Syria he would be identical with 
Baal. In the Egyptian representation of the Syrian trinity the Hittite goddess 
Kadesh stands on a lioness (or panther) between the two gods, Min (or Amsu) 
and Resheph. In Resheph we recognized Adad, and in Min we may perhaps 
recognize our standing vested god, modified to suit the Egyptian taste. He stands 
upright, nude and ithyphallic. 

