SYRO-HITTITE CYLINDERS: THE GODDESS WITH ROBE WITHDRAWN. 301 
by the neck. The remaining space is in three registers. In the upper one is an 
ibex between two lions; in the second are two couchant griffins; in the third a 
seated figure between two sphinxes. A remarkable example we have in fig. 939a. 
Here the winged goddess, in profile, stands on her cow within a shrine. A bizarre 
nude figure, like Gilgamesh, in front view, kneeling and with legs bent outward, 
holds in one hand a sickle-like object and in the other what may be a fan. The 
remainder of the design is in two registers. In the upper is perhaps an altar inclosed 
in two rectangles, perhaps the base or steps of the altar, two apes, and a small 
seated figure under which is the rare cuttle-fish. In the lower register, which is 
reversed, are crossed lions and other animals. The bird near the goddess may be 
her dove. One might compare with this cylinder fig. 956 (where the figure is 
feminine) and figs. 642-646 (the “Gorgons’’). In another case (fig. 940) the winged 
goddess is quite nude. She holds in her hand the same sort of an object which we 
saw in fig. 936 or in fig. 904, only it looks somewhat more like the Egyptian emblem 
of serenity. Before her stands another deity holding a bow and behind her are a 
worshiper and a vertical guilloche. Of two other objects it is hard to say whether 
they are more like fishes or doves. That they are probably birds of some sort appears 

from the bird, whether dove or more likely a hawk, in fig. 1009, a quite unique 
cylinder, in which the goddess sits in the lap of her consort. There are two wor- 
shipers, a guilloche, the hawk over a head, over a hare, also a small vase. All the 
figures wear long flounced garments. ‘This cylinder seems to connect the goddess 
with the high-hatted and fully robed god as his wife. We have previously observed 
her with him, and it is probably this same god whom she follows in fig. 941, a beau- 
tiful cylinder, unfortunately badly broken, so that the upper part of the body of 
the three gods is lost, for they would have been quite characteristic and distinctive. 
The one in front, behind the sphinx, appears to be Adad-Teshub, and one of the 
two others, probably the middle one with hand closed and holding a scimitar, is 
the deity in the high hat, here identified seemingly with Marduk. Here is also a 
crux ansata. 
Before concluding the description of the goddess, or goddesses, of the Syro- 
Hittite art, it is well to include a seated deity, not certainly feminine, who occasion- 
ally appears. Two such are in the de Clercq collection, and in both cases Ménant 
or de Rougé regards the deity as masculine; but to me the goddess is more likely. 
One of these is seen in fig. 942, where she holds a scepter like the Egyptian tat. A 
worshiper stands before her, and a second worshiper before a god like Adad-Teshub. 
