CHAPTER XLVIII. 
TESHUB. 
We have found in Chapter xxx the Babylonian Adad to be differently repre- 
sented from the Babylonian Ramman-Martu. He is a god with a short garment 
and holding a weapon over his head with one hand, while the other may lead a 
bull by a cord in its nose. A similar god is a principal deity in the Syro-Hittite 
art, yet not so generally associated with the bull. Sometimes the bull is given, as 
in fig. 878. This is marked as Hittite by the general type and by the crux ansata. 
The inscription, as read by Winckler, shows it to have belonged to one Akhlib-sar. 
The god holds the bull by a cord and is heavily armed. The weapon in his left 
hand is very peculiar, as if it were an asymmetrical bow. Such a weapon is fig- 
ured as Asianic by W. Max Miller (“Asien und Europa,” p. 303); and, as 
von Luschan says (see Winckler in Mitt. d. Vorderas. Gesellschaft, 1896, 4, p 
1g), such bows are in use in the New Hebrides. The 
cast shows the bow to be asymmetric, but it is possible 
that this appearance is due to bad drawing caused by the 
crowding. ‘There is a worshiper in a square hat, with 
a vase in his hand, and a third figure who is a goddess’s 
attendant. ‘he interest of this cylinder is especially in 
the inscription: 
Akhlib- sar 
Servant of Adad 
But instead of “Adad” we should probably read Teshub, 
as the corresponding Hittite name of the god. As Winck- 
“a ler says, this cylinder appears to be of the middle of the 
second chiliad 1B oh aT name Akhlib-sar is parallel to such other Hittite names 
as Haleb-sar and Cheta-sar, names of Hittite kings. 
Very much in the same style is fig. 879. Here the god, like Adad (but we may 
give him the name of the Hittite god Teshub), wears the same short garment with 
its transverse lines of folds, or embroidery, the same peculiar helmet with its sharp 
peak, and with his queue hanging down his back, as in the Hittite figures in Egyp- 
tian representations of Hittite soldiers. In his right hand he lifts his club and in 
his left he carries an ax and an asymmetrical bow, while by the same hand he leads 
a bull by a cord. Opposite him stands a beardless worshiper, and between them 
are the seven dots, the sun in crescent, a dove, and a crux ansata, emblem of life. 
Under the worshiper is the guilloche, but in this case it is not as a twisted rope, 
nor braided, but in reéntrant curves. This may be regarded as a very early and 
original form of the guilloche and is very rare in Hittite art. The inscription 1s 
of the ordinary filiary character, and the owner is a worshiper of the god Teshub. 
This cylinder would appear to belong to a period not later than the middle of 
the second chiliad B.C. To much the same period we may assign fig. 880, where 
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