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turn to the accompanying inscription and we find that the king begins with an 
invocation to ten gods whom he specifies, and then groups the rest “zl: rabuti 
halisunu,” “the great gods, all of them.” The ten gods mentioned are (in order) 
(1) Ashur, (2) Anu, (3) Bel, (4) Ea, (5) Sin, (6) Shamash, (7) Adad, (8) Mar- 
duk, (9) Ishtar, (10) the Seven, the last being the seven Igigi. Besides these 
deities here specified, Nabu is afterwards named in connection with Marduk. 
Inasmuch as among the specified deities are the seven Igigi, it is easy to recognize 
the seven dots as representing these deities, which gives us five out of the twelve 
figures which we can recognize, but none of the columns. 
The inscription gives us hardly any further help, as the order of the figures 
and that of the names is evidently not the same, and especially as there are more 
deities figured than are specifically named in the inscription; and, further, only 
one goddess, Ishtar, is mentioned, while two appear to be figured, one the star of 
Ishtar and the other a seated goddess. 



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Next, von Luschan calls attention to a stele of Assurnazirpal (fig. 1280), on 
which are figured five emblems of gods, and on which five gods are invoked. We 
might naturally presume the five figured to be the same as the five invoked. They 
are the crescent, Sin; the star, Ishtar; the thunderbolt, Adad; and also the familiar 
circle with four rays alternating with four streams, which we know to be Shamash. 
‘That leaves the horned hat, which would seem to be Ashur, who is named and who 
had seemed previously to be represented by the winged circle. 
On a stele of Esarhaddon (fig. 1281) are figured six emblems of gods and six 
are mentioned in the accompanying inscription. But the names of the gods and 
their figures do not correspond, and we do not need to dwell on them. It would 
seem that the artist put in the small emblems as he happened to choose, while the 
scribe selected the names of the two triads of gods, except that Ashur takes the place 
of Anu. Only two of his list appear to be figured. 
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