CHAPTER XLIX. 
THE SEATED SYRO-HITTITE GODDESS. 
There is a considerable number of cylinders which show us a seated deity, 
of more northern origin, usually to be recognized as a goddess. One such case 
we have seen in fig. 703, as also in figs. 781, 782. ‘This is to be expected, since we 
have found in the Assyrian mythology a prominent seated goddess who seems to 
be allied to the Earth Mother among the Greeks. Yet in the Syro-Hittite mythology 
the seated goddess bears no such prominent and distinctive part as we might 
have looked for. She seems to have no special function or duty; and we can not 
well identify any seated god, although in fig. 898 the peaked hat suggests the male 
sex. But we have seen in fig. 718, seq., a male seated deity, who is quite likely to 
have come from the large Syro-Hittite region. We have another case in fig. 719, the 
material of which, jade, suggests that it comes from the more northern or western 
region from which Chantre and others have brought celts of jade. Yet such celts 
as I have seen are of a less fine quality of jade than that of the jade cylinders. Here 
a seated flounced god holds a branch as scepter, and a worshiper offers a goat. A 
god on a bull carries an Egyptian scepter. He appears to be a form of Adad, and 

a second god, like Marduk, with a scimitar, also grasps the scepter. here is an 
evident Egyptian influence, ir» the headdress of the attendant behind the deity who 
carries a bird, as well as in the crux ansata. Before the deity are the winged disk, 
a star, a bird, and a worshiper; and above the guilloche is a winged animal, and 
below it a rabbit. 
We shall see in figs. 1024 to 1027 cases in which a deity holds a spouting vase. 
Such a vase is held in fig. 899 by a seated goddess, who is symmetrically repeated. 
The stream falls from the vase in her hand into a vase on the ground. Behind the 
duplicated goddess are four marching figures and an attendant worshiper. This 
fine cylinder has a lower register, in which two symmetric sphinxes face a star and 
a kneeling figure seizes the horn of a humped bull. We may infer from this cylinder 
that in some way the goddess was the guardian of the upper waters. 
Fig. goo is a cylinder of special value because we know its locality. It is of black 
serpentine and was found by Miss I. F. Dodd, of the Girls’ College in Constanti- 
nople, at Kil-tepe, near Casarea, in Cappadocia. It appears to be quite archaic. 
The two seated figures may be either male or female. They seem to be nude and 
each has a long queue, such as is worn by Hittite soldiers in the Egyptian figures of 
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