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long-robed god. There is a sphinx above a lion, also a dove above a human head, 
the sun in a crescent, together with some other small uncertain objects. Yet 
another example is seen in fig. 928, where the worshiper facing her has what may 
be an Egyptian asp before his hat. ‘There are a second standing figure, two small 
seated figures facing each other, each holding a crook, over two seated lions. 
There are also in the field the sun in a crescent, a monkey, a human head with 
bull’s horns and ears, and the head of a goat. 
We have already noticed that in fig. g25 we have the figure of the nude Zirbanit 
as well as this nude or semi-nude goddess. In fig. 929 we must consider the pos- 
sibility that we have Zirbanit in the nude goddess with exaggerated hips, her arms 
akimbo, and streams from her shoulders. There is a second smaller figure, between 
two guilloches, with streams from the shoulders, but the arms are extended to the 
streams and the face is in front view and the body in a short robe. A long-robed 
figure, perhaps a worshiper, stands before the goddess, and there is a star. It is 
impossible to decide with certainty, but I am inclined to think that this is not 
Zirbanit, but the same goddess that we have been considering. 

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We now consider the same goddess as she is seen under an arch. In fig. 930 
she is quite nude, in the usual attitude, and stands on her bull. In this rare case, 
as in fig. 915, the arch has two wings at the top. Before her is a worshiper holding 
an Egyptian asp, below which is a hawk. Behind her are the Egyptian triple cross, 
the emblem of stability, a worshiper, and a guilloche over two figures of a procession. 
If we take this goddess under the arch to be the same as the goddess we have been 
considering, we must also find her under the semi-arch and standing on a bull in 
fig. 931 (previously shown in fig. go7) although she is decently clad. Before her 
is her dove, and the approaching figure looks much like Martu of the Babylonian 
seals. We have also a worshiper approaching a seated deity before whose head is 
a hare. 
The same goddess, here nude and not on her bull, we see in fig. 932, where 
she holds out her hands to grasp the arch. Beside her is a peculiar column or 
ashera, which we see in figs. 840 and 1308, a sort of Eastern herm, with a human 
face rudely suggested at the top. Of the two other figures, one suggests a confusion 
between Shamash and Gilgamesh, and the other is more like Marduk or Ramman. 
