. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. be, in an attitudeof worship. It is not unusual to have a small indeterminateanimal which looks like a short-tailed monkey or jackal in frontof a seated god, but such a case as this would suggest that inthese cases the animal is a goat. In several cases of cylinders asold as Gudea, or older, we see a bull in the same attitude whichsuggests that then the seated god is thus indicated to be Sin. We William Hayes Ward 369 do not know that the goat is particularly associated with any god;but the goat-fish and the ram are pecul
. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. be, in an attitudeof worship. It is not unusual to have a small indeterminateanimal which looks like a short-tailed monkey or jackal in frontof a seated god, but such a case as this would suggest that inthese cases the animal is a goat. In several cases of cylinders asold as Gudea, or older, we see a bull in the same attitude whichsuggests that then the seated god is thus indicated to be Sin. We William Hayes Ward 369 do not know that the goat is particularly associated with any god;but the goat-fish and the ram are peculiar to Ea, and it may bethat Ea is here designated. The form of the seated god is con-ventional for various gods, as Shamash, Ningirsu, etc. It will be observed that as the goat stands next to the god, soa bird like a crane, or goose, or stork, stands next to the bird is frequently attached to Ban on the earlier large cylin-ders; but it is not likely that this is Bau, unless the god is Nin-girsu. But it is not usual, I think, for Bau to take the inferior. Fig. 11—The Hermitage i role of attendant to her consort. She seems to be, like Ishtar, ofa primary rank. A cylinder of the most archaic period we have in Fig. 12. Onthese cylinders no form of writing is to be expected. They areoften, as in this case, long and of narrow diameter, and in two oreven three registers. The designs are few and simple. In thiscase we have the two deities, who cannot be identified, but whoarc probably the god and his wife, seated and facing each them we often have a stand with a vase on it from whichthey drink through a long tube. Occasionally there is a gate nearthem. This hardly looks like a gate and may be a sort of rudealtar. Before one of the deities stands a nude worshiper. Thebirdlike form of the heads is characteristic of the early period. 1 The five-line inscription reads as follows: iHu-UKU-iLi 2pATE8i of Mash, 3 governor of Madka, * since he crushed 5 Unu, these
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