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would be adopted in the Syro-Hittite art. In fig. 1024 the hand, the rabbit, and the 
crux ansata make it clear that this is rather Syrian or Hittite than Babylonian, 
although the influence is chiefly from Babylonia. A seated god rests his feet and 
his throne on two human-headed bulls, such as we have seen on Babylonian cylin- 
ders and in bronze (see figs. 320-322). One of the streams spouts from the vase 
held in the god’s hand and the other from his shoulder, and each falls on the 
head of the bull below. A worshiper presents a goat and two other worshipers 
follow. A bird, a star, an ox’s head, a hand, and a “libra” with a peculiar handle, 




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fill the vacant spaces. More usually it is a goddess who is the source of the stream. 
In fig. 1025 the goddess stands in front view, with earrings, and a very small run- 
ning antelope is each side of her head. A stream falls from each of her shoulders, 
with mo vase visible in her hands. Within the stream is a fish. Each side of the 
goddess stands Eabani holding a spear with the point down. In the remaining 
space two monkeys face each other over an uncertain object. The face of the 
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vase in her hand and is gathered into another vase on the ground. “Two human 
figures (their hats are not horned) stand one before and the other behind the god- 
dess; and above a guilloche are a sphinx and a rabbit, and below a lion and a goat’s 
head. Much the same design appears in fig. 1027 except that the streams fall on 
the ground and above and below the guilloche is a sphinx. In fig. 880 we have 
seen Gilgamesh with the spouting vase. We see him perhaps again in fig. 10274 
where the standing god with the thunderbolt in the shape of the Greek trident is 
Adad, and we have the seated goddess with the sacrificial table before her. 
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