Cylinder Seal

CBS Register: hematite seal. Adad and Shala. To them approaches a worshipper follwed by a figure holding staff.

PBS XIV: The worshiping of Martu and of Syro-Hittite hunting and war goddess. Martu is the usual figure stepping forth club in hand. A bearded worshiper with bulging turban, his hair tied in a swallow tail, a fringed robe girded about, adores with one hand up. Behind the god, the divine attendant does the same with both hands. A long fillet hangs down her back. The emblems are the crescent and a squat monkey.

The foreign goddess steps forth crooked stick in hand, her bare leg lifted on a crouched ram. She is perhaps the counterpart of Martu, the goddess Aba(?). Like Ishtar she has a plaited shawl girded about and opening in front. There are straps across her shoulders perhaps over a tight cuirass. Her hair is tied in a swallow tail. Her feather crown or mitre is properly western and Hittite, and is found later on the head of the Assyrian Ishtar, and of the Babylonian kings after the Cassite dynasty, about BC1300. Concave cyl. seal. Hematite, 27 x 13 ½ mm