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170 accompanied these changes in depictions. Whatever they were, they intensified the ferocity of the attacks by the Enli- lite states—Assyria, Elam—on Babylon and their opposition to Marduk’s hegemony. Those attacks delayed, but did not prevent, the eventual adoption of the Sign of the Cross in As- syria itself. As royal monuments reveal, it was worn, most conspicuously, by Assyria’s kings on their chests, near their a “yak “Peal THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 74 FIGURE 75