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the god holds his club, asymmetric bow, and ax, and opposite him is a female 
figure, probably a goddess, in a high, square hat. “Two figures of Gilgamesh face 
each other, holding in their hands a spouting vase, the streams of which make 
two arches about them. Between them is a scorpion. Yet another of similar style 
and period is seen in fig. 881. In this the upper and lower part are concealed by 
the heavy gold mounting. ‘The god holds an ax or club above his head with his 
right hand and grasps a bow and an ax with his left hand. Before him a bearded 
flounced deity raises a spouting vase in his right hand, one stream of which falls 
past two fishes to the ground, while a second stream flows to a second vase in his 
left hand, from which another stream falls behind him to the ground. Behind this 
flounced god is an antelope, over a hare, a bird, and a scorpion. ‘There are three 
lines of filiary inscription. 
Closely related also is fig. 882. Here T’eshub-Adad stands on a prostrate 
victim. In one hand he lifts a club and in the other holds his ax. Before him a 
god or warrior holds a bow by each hand, over his shoulders. A third figure is like 
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the Babylonian Martu, and there is a vertical guilloche and the sun is in a cres- 
cent. In these seals the sun is*simply a circle with no cross lines inserted. In fig. 
883 the god stands on mountains and has a weapon in each hand, a club and an 
ax. Before him is the goat’s head which has been supposed to be the emblem of 
Tarkhu. The naked goddess who is shown in Chapter LI stands on her bull. There 
are two processions of eight small figures, one led by a somewhat larger figure, 
while before the other is a seated figure holding a vase. There is a guilloche, also 
the sun in a crescent and a small bird. The eight small figures have been recognized 
by Hommel (Memnon, 1, pp. 83-85) as the Egyptian Ogdoad attached to the sun- 
god. To the same class of cylinders belongs fig. 884. The god seems to be 
Adad-Teshub, except that his weapon is not lifted over his head; he carries a not 
wholly symmetrical bow in his left hand, while his right falls behind him. There 
falls from his shoulder what might be taken for his queue, if it were not so very long, 
almost to his ankles. It can hardly be a shield, as we see on comparing with the 
figure of the other god. A worshiper stands before him. The other deity also has 
the doubtful queue from his shoulder. He wears the same short garment as does 
Teshub, but also a second longer one that covers his knee. In his left hand he 
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