FIGURES OF DEITIES. 383 
apparently drinking through a bent tube from a vase on a stand before her. She 
much resembles the very archaic Babylonian deities shown in No. 16. In the plainly 
Syro-Hittite cylinders she appears as shown 
in Chapter xL1x. For examples see figs. 
Tae Vivi Vet 
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48. Adad Seatedina Chair: A charac- (a) 
teristic of the northern art is the use of the he 
high-backed chair in place of the square ai 
stool. The latter is made of the ribs of [474] laze] [476] 
palm leaves, a material not stiff enough for the back of a chair. Wood would be 
used for seats in the north, especially in the hilly regions, and from this chair- 
backs could be made. While the seated god in such a chair belongs to the Assyrian 
period and empire, he probably is not 
indigenous to Assyria itself, or at least to 
the Semitic Assyrian people, but comes 
from the northern regions. Frequently, 
in these cylinders this god, or a goddess, 
is attended by a servant holding a fan. 
The back of the chair may be adorned 
with stars or rude circles which take the 
place of stars. Occasionally we have the 
stool in place of the chair. It is far from [484] [485] 
certain whom this god represents, although infrequently he carries the thunderbolt, 
in which case he is a form of Adad. (See Chapter xxxIx.) 


49. Goddess Seated in a Chair: She may be resting her foot on a dog, as if 
she were Gula or some kindred goddess; or she may be the Asianic goddess Ma, 
or possibly Belit. She is of northern origin and is to be related to the seated Hittite 
deity, or to the more archaic form shown in No. 47. (See Chapter xxxIx.) 

[50] [50c] 
[49a] [496] 
50. The God with Stars: Adad: ‘The god usually adorned with stars ought, 
from the stars, to be Adar (Ninib) or Jupiter. But the evidence seems to connect 
him with the more popular and warlike Adad. He does not usually stand in a 
circle, as does Ishtar, but the stars may be at the end of his bows or on the top of 
his hat. His animal is a bull or some composite animal in which the horns or tail 
of the bull enter. (See Chapter xt.) 
