. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. us the deities thus relatedto dragons are infrequent. A museum is fortunate that has oneor two among a thousand selected cylinders. These cylinders show two types, the one in which the male godrides in a chariot, and the other in which the two deities standeach on the dragon between its wings. Of the first type, by farthe finest specimen is that shown in Fig. 2, and first published byme in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Litera-tures, Vol. XIV, pp. 94-105. It is very archaic, and of god rides in a
. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper;. us the deities thus relatedto dragons are infrequent. A museum is fortunate that has oneor two among a thousand selected cylinders. These cylinders show two types, the one in which the male godrides in a chariot, and the other in which the two deities standeach on the dragon between its wings. Of the first type, by farthe finest specimen is that shown in Fig. 2, and first published byme in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Litera-tures, Vol. XIV, pp. 94-105. It is very archaic, and of god rides in a chariot with four solid wheels (without spokes),and brandishes a whip. He is decently clothed, but the goddess,who stands between the wings of the dragon drawing the chariot,is unclad, and lifts thunderbolts in each hand. Before these William Hayes Ward 363 deities stands a worshiper who pours out a libation about an altarof the most archaic form, having a step, or shelf to hold an offer-ing, while other offerings, perhaps cakes or loaves, are on the topof the Fig. 3.—Berlin Museum Only one other cylinder is to be found in the museums, in whichthe god is drawn by a dragon harnessed to a chariot. It is thusshown in Fig. 3. Again the chariot has four solid wheels. In other cases either the god alone stands on the dragon betweenits wings, or there are two dragons, and the goddess stands on thesecond dragon, as in Fig. 1. The finest one of this type is shownin Fig. 4, and it resembles the cylinder from the Hermitage, inthat it has the two scenes, although it lacks the goddess on the
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