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37. God with Foot on Victim: The god carries in one hand a weapon over 
his head and in the other a sheaf of radiating clubs or arrows, while one foot rests 
on a prostrate victim. ‘This may be the later conventional form of the god figured 
in No. 5, in which case 
it would probably be 
Nergal; or it may be 
a variant of the last, 
as Adad. (See Chap- 
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38. Goddess with 
Crook: This goddess, | = ae 
designated assuch by =— 7a [375] [38a] [385] 
her square hat and her spreading necklace, or pectoral (not a beard), appears 
occasionally in the later period of the Middle Kingdom. She doubtless came from 
the Hittite region, but can not be identified (see fig. 456). 

39. God with Crutch: ‘The crutch is very likely a crescent on a pole, and the 
god comes, like the last, from the north, 
and may be a form of Sin. In some 
cases the sun 1s in the crescent. 
40. The Two Figures Wrestling: 
What mythologic personages are meant 
is not clear. It is easier to suggest 
Gemini than to prove it. 
The Assyrian deities differ some- : are ¢ 
what in appearance, but represent gen- [394] eae [40] 
erally the same as the Babylonian; but some forms, mostly subordinate, require 
separate treatment. For Ashur in the winged disk see No. 1 in the next chapter. 
41. The God Fighting a Dragon, etc.: Marduk-Gilgamesh: The design which 
represents the conflict between order and disorder is new in the Assyrian art. It 
appears to be drawn from the story of Marduk and Tiamat, but confounded with 
that which represents Gilgamesh fighting wild beasts. The god is winged, which 

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is a bold addition to the true Babylonian thought of the gods, and this feature has 
passed into all later representations of heavenly beings. The god may be standing 
or on his knees, and may fight a dragon, a sphinx, an ostrich, or a wild beast. 
(See Chapter xxXVI.) 
