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hardly seems to be a principal god, appears doubly protected by the winged disk 
above him and the figure of the god between the circle of the sun and the crescent. 
But when the god is thus introduced into the disk as part of the main design, instead 
of presiding above, the hero usually disappears. Such is the case in figs. 1132, 1133. 
Here the crescent and the circle of the sun are not separated, but are continuous. 
Above in fig. 1132 1s Ahura-mazda, with the characteristically long Persian wings, 
which are supported by the arms of the two four-winged, bull-bodied figures. In 

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fig. 1134 we have the same sort of crescent circle, with the included god and, above, 
the winged disk; while on each side is a bird, and the remaining space is given to a 
simple ‘sacred tree. We have a decided variation of this design in fig. 1136, where 
the crescent circle is reduced to the mere crescent and the included god is developed 
with four wings and the tail of a bird, as in the winged disk. On each side of the 
god stands a soldier with spear held upright before him, and bow, arrows, and quiver 

hanging behind his back, while the two spears and the cords from the winged disk 
above form a sort of recess and arch to inclose the winged god. The design shown 
in fig. 1134a may belong to this period, although the garments are quite Assyrian. 
We have a peculiar case in fig. 1135, where the god, as archer shooting a lion, has 
the lower part of his body that of a fish, perhaps. 
