292 SEAL CYLINDERS OF WESTERN ASIA. 
is very peculiar, with the circle in the crescent above it. But with this may be 
compared fig. 896, where the god in a running position, standing on an animal, 
swings an ibex by the horns over his head; below him is the guilloche. Another 
god stands holding a weapon, and a genius, with wings, lifts two ibexes by the 
hind leg. 
There can be no question that this god is to be identified, or at least related, 
to the Adad of the Assyrian pantheon. ‘They have the same general features and 
are connected, at times, with the same bull led by a cord. This god can be hardly 
any other than the warlike Teshub of Hittite worship. It would be interesting if 
we could settle whether the god has his origin in the Assyrian or in the Syro-Hittite 
region; probably in the latter. As he appears in the Babylonian art he seems to 
be of northern or western origin. He seems to be more at home, more characteristic 
and interrelated with the Hittite than with the Assyrian worship. While historically 
we have no definite knowledge of the Hittites, whether from Egyptian or Assyrian 
sources, until the period of the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty, there can be no doubt 
that a considerable civilization and art had preceded that period, and that a some- 
what compact civilization had long prevailed, affected both by the Babylonian on 
the one side and that of the Mediterranean coast on the other, but based on its 
own indigenous culture and religion; and the races represented by the Hittites 
gave to the Assyrians and Babylonians something, while they borrowed much. 
We may include in this chapter the cylinder shown in fig. 897 and which is 
mounted in gold caps. Here a god corresponding to Adad, or Teshub, stands on 
a bull and carries several clubs. Before the seated goddess, with her dove, stands 
a worshiper, probably female. There are also twohands. This is perhaps Cypriote. 
For Teshub in the form of a herm see fig. 1308. 
Characteristic of Teshub are his weapons, corresponding to the thunder- 
bolt borne by the Babylonian Adad, the mountains on which he stands, and the 
bull whose bellowing represents his thunder. ‘These attributes ally him to the 
Hebrew Yahwe. See Ward, “The Origin of the Worship of Yahwe,”’ American 
Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature, April, 1909. 
