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English: The Weather god, armed with lightning, fighting a Bašmu dragon, on a brown serpentinite Neo-Assyrian cyllinder seal (9th/8th Century BC). See Schroer, Silvia (2018) (in German) Die Ikonographie Palastinas/Israels und der Alte Orient, Band 4: Die Eisenzeit bis zum Beginn der achämenidischen Herrschaft, Schwabe Verlag, pp. 610 . According to the British Museum site, this dragon may represent Tiamat.
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