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317 RAMMAR/Sin ISHROR/AGad GIBIL God was surely an oddity. Reclusive, perhaps; selectively accessible, yes; but unseen—certainly not. Virtually all the "great gods" of Sumer—with the apparent exception of Anu—were depicted one way or another, in sculptures or engravings or upon cylinder seals (Fig. 106). That they were actually seen by mortals is evident from countless cylinder seals found throughout Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Medi- terranean lands that depict what scholars call "presentation scenes" in which a king, as often as not wearing priestly Prophets of an Unseen God TWOHA/Iahter as Great Lady, Enchantress, Warrior, Pilot Figure 106