Figure V.3. The winged Ishtar above the rising sun god, the river god, and other deities in Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. Mackenzie. Project Gutenberg The image is in gray scale. The clay tablet depicts Ishtar and other deities. A stylized version of water appears as a band of upside down U shapes across the bottom of the tablet. In the upper left corner are four cuneiform shapes in a rectangle divided in half, two shapes in each half. The first image at the top of left half of the rectagngle has a small rectangle divided in half sitting on a wider rectangle with verticle lines running through it. Below that shape is a second rectangle with four wavy lines running right to left above it. The first image at the top of the right half of the rectangle is two overlapping triangles each with a verticle line extending up from the point of the triangle. Two horizontal lines cross the top of the two vertical lines. Below that is an image of a rectangle divided into three squares. The right side of the rectangle extends in a verticle line downward to a horizontal line. Angled from the horizontal line is a short segment angled back toward the right and connecting with another verticle line that reaches back up to the rectangle of squares. The main images on the table are the figures of the gods and animals. On the far left is a roaring lion facing right. Next is a male god. He wears a tunic and a pointed hat on his head. He has a long beard in three braids and holds a bow and arrow. To the right of this figure is a stylized tree with four branches. to the right of the tree stands the goddess Ishtar. She wears a long dress and a pointed cap and has wings. Below here is the sun god sitting in the war. Fish swim from him to the shoulders of the next god. Between the two gods, a hawk holds one of the fish in his claws. The fish god stands, one leg raised. Beneath his is a ram. The god wears a long tunic with a bodice and has on a pointed hat. Behind him more fish rise from the water. To the far right is the final god, also wearing a pointed hat and tunic.