412 K. Humann und O. Puchstein, _Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien_ (Berlin, 1902), Atlas, pl. xlv. 3; _Ausgrabungen zu Sendschirli_, iii. (Berlin, 1902) pl. xli.; J. Garstang, _The Land of the Hittites_, p. 291, with plate lxxvii.; R. Koldewey, _Die Hettitische Inschrift gefunden in der Königsburg von Babylon_ (Leipsic, 1900), plates 1 and 2 (_Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft_, Heft 1); L. Messerschmidt, _Corpus Inscriptionum Hettiticarum_, pl. i. 5 and 6; _id._, _The Hittites_ (London, 1903), pp. 40-42, with fig. 6 on p. 41; M. J. Lagrange, _Études sur les Religions Sémitiques_2 (Paris, 1905), p. 93. The name of the god is thought to have been Teshub or Teshup; for a god of that name is known from the Tel-el-Amarna letters to have been the chief deity of the Mitani, a people of Northern Mesopotamia akin in speech and religion to the Hittites, but ruled by an Aryan dynasty. See Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Altertums_,2 i. 2. pp. 578, 591 _sq._, 636 _sq._; R. F. Harper, _Assyrian and Babylonian Literature_, pp. 222, 223 (where the god’s name is spelt Tishub). The god is also mentioned repeatedly in the Hittite archives which Dr. H. Winckler found inscribed on clay tablets at Boghaz-Keui. See H. Winckler, “Vorläufige Nachrichten über die Ausgrabungen in Boghaz-köi im Sommer 1907,” _Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin_, No. 35, December 1907, pp. 13 _sq._, 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 51 _sq._, 53; “Hittite Archives from Boghaz-Keui,” translated from the German transcripts of Dr. Winckler, _Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology_, iv. (Liverpool and London, 1912) pp. 90 _sqq._ As to the Mitani, their language and their gods, see H. Winckler, _op. cit._ pp. 30 _sqq._, 46 _sqq._ In thus interpreting the Hittite god who heads the procession at Boghaz-Keui I follow my colleague Prof. J. Garstang (_The Land of the Hittites_, p. 237; _The Syrian Goddess_, pp. 5 _sqq._), who has kindly furnished me with some notes on the subject. I formerly interpreted the deity as the Hittite equivalent of Tammuz, Adonis, and Attis. But against that view it may be urged that (1) the god is bearded and therefore of mature age, whereas Tammuz and his fellows were regularly conceived as youthful; (2) the thunderbolt which he seems to carry would be quite inappropriate to Tammuz, who was not a god of thunder but of vegetation; and (3) the Hittite Tammuz is appropriately represented in the procession of women immediately behind the Mother Goddess (see below, pp. 137 _sq._), and it is extremely improbable that he should be represented twice over with different attributes in the same scene. These considerations seem to