THE RECOGNITION OF THE DEITIES. 369 
age of Ishtar”; by that of a god is the inscription, “Image of Adad”’; by that of 
the worshiper is the inscription, “Image of Shamash-resh-usur.” The third deity 
is imperfect by the fracture of the stone and no epigraph is preserved. ‘This stele 
was probably carried by Nebuchadnezzar, or some king of his dynasty, to Babylon 
as a trophy of victory, just as the stele with the Hammurabi Code was carried from 
Sippara to Susa by a Median conqueror. The land of Suhi was on the Middle 
Euphrates, somewhere about the mouth of the river Habor. The date of this 
monument is perhaps 750 B. C. 



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Here we have an renin record of the two deities Ishtar and Adad, as rep- 
resented not by the Babylonians or the Assyrians, but by the Suhi, in the region 
between the two, at a comparatively late period. Adad appears to be the principal 
figure. He carries his special emblem, a thunderbolt, in each hand. With the 
thunderbolt is, in at least one case and probably in both, a ring. ‘The thunderbolt 
is drawn with two prongs, and it is held by the single bar which connects the two, 
as in the case of the thunderbolt held by Marduk in the famous design of Marduk 
and the Dragon (fig. 564). The god wears the square feathered hat which we see 
in the stele of Marduk-iddin-akhi (fig. 664). Ishtar carries as her only emblem 
a bow with her star above the ring through which her hand passes to hold the 
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