Fig. 210.—Woman with hands supporting breasts, Graeco-Parthian style.
Fig. 211.—Woman with arms hanging down.
8. The only seated divinity is represented as a man with an unusually long beard, wearing a flounced garment, and holding some object in his left hand which it has not been possible to identify from the few specimens found; the right hand rests on the right knee (Fig. [215]). The temple statue of Marduk in Esagila, according to Herodotus (i. 183), was also depicted as sitting, a resemblance with this type which can hardly be regarded as merely accidental.
Fig. 212.—Male figure with goblet (Anu?).
Fig. 213.—Man with folded hands.
Fig. 214.—Man with folded hands, Parthian style.