EMBLEMS OF DEITIES. 391 
Yet another stele of Esarhaddon, on the Nahr el-Kelb, shows eight emblems. 
Unfortunately the inscription is imperfectly preserved. 
Another case to which von Luschan calls attention is much more important. 
It is the rock-relief of Sennacherib near Bavian (fig. 1282). On it are twelve 
emblems of gods, and the inscription mentions twelve. It has been observed that 
in previous cases there was no care taken to secure correspondence between the 
emblems figured and the names or order of the gods mentioned, so that the list 
of gods invoked gave little help in identifying the emblems. Those in one category 
might not appear in the other. The artist of the emblems was not in consultation 
with the scribe. But in this case there is a correspondence, not observed by von 
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There are twelve emblems and twelve gods named; and the important fact is that 
the order in a number of cases is evidently the same. ‘Thus the crescent, Sin, is 
fifth in both; Adad’s thunderbolt is seventh; the star of Ishtar is eleventh; and 
the seven dots, or stars, are twelfth. These coincidences pass quite beyond any 
law of probable accident and must have been intentional. The one apparent 
violation of coincidence is in the case of the god Shamash, who comes sixth in the 
list of gods. But the sixth emblem is the winged disk, which was supposed to repre- 
sent usually Ashur. It would here seem to represent Shamash; and, indeed, if 
it represented Ashur it ought to hold the first place of honor and not the sixth, next 
after the moon, just as in fig. 1279 it came between Sin and Ishtar. We then con- 
clude that the winged disk must have originally represented the sun and was so 
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