290 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
holds a shield (or possibly bow), and he has a curved weapon an his right, some- 
thing like the scimitar of Marduk, with whom he may be assimilated. Before him 
stands a figure, probably a goddess, in a high, square hat. The only emblem isa star. 
Another cylinder in which this god carries the bow is shown in fig. 886. On 
his shoulder he bears a long club, or spear, and his helmet seems to have a sort of 
plume. To be sure, it may be that this is not the same god, but it probably is, 
although he wears with the short garment a longer one falling in a sort of fringe. 
There are three other figures, one behind the god, in the dress and attitude of the 
goddess Aa; another, a god in a high hat and with flounced garment, holding a 
spear; and a third female figure crowned with the Egyptian solar disk and asp and 
holding, perhaps, a vase in the left hand. A star and a crux ansata are in the field. 
Apparently of about the same period is fig. 885. Here the god, in his usual 
attitude and holding a weapon in each hand, stands on two mountains. The 
object in his left hand may be taken for a lotus. Before him stands another god, 
perhaps, and behind him an attendant goddess. The fourth figure, behind Adad- 
Teshub, is apparently the soldier-owner of the seal, with his spear in one hand and 
a lance, perhaps, in the other. 









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animal, and the sun in the crescent. ‘This cylinder is interesting for comparison 
with the figures at Boghaz-keui. ‘The god also stands on mountains in fig. 887, 
holding a spear and an ax, while a worshiper and the goddess stand before him. 
Another very interesting cylinder is shown in fig. 888. “The god, with his helmet and 
his long queue, holds an uncertain weapon in his /eft hand behind his head, and 
in the right an ax and another uncertain object which hardly seems to be the upper 
part of a bow, or, with its small circles, to be a lotus with bent stem, as was suggested 
in the previous figure. But in this seal the goddess in the square hat, holding a 
vase, seems to be the principal figure, for it is before her that the worshiper stands. 
The object before her, under the rosette of seven dots and the star, is not to be 
taken for the tree of life, but is the cuttle-fish, not often seen on the cylinders, but 
occasionally, as in fig. 798, and showing that the design had close relation to the 
Island and Mycenzan culture. There is also a seated monkey. Such a monkey 
we may see perched on a pole, or column, as if it were a sort of ashera, in fig. 889, 
which probably belongs to this same Syro-Hittite cycle of art and culture, although 
the distinctively Hittite motifs are not so characteristic. Adad stands on his bull, 
while holding it by a cord. ‘The seated god with the approaching figures, the star 
and the crescent, are quite Babylonian in style, but this cylinder was found in the 
Hauran and Is associated with other more distinctively Syro-Hittite seals. 
