[PLATE CXLII., Fig.

5.] The various readings of the Septuagint version make it extremely uncertain what was the name actually written in the original Hebrew text.

Nisroch, which is utterly unlike any divine name hitherto found in the Assyrian records, is most probable a corruption.

At any rate there are no sufficient grounds for identifying the god mentioned, whatever the true reading of his name may be, with the hawk-headed figure, which has the appearance of an attendant genius rather than that of a god, and which was certainly not included among the main deities of Assyria.
[Illustration: PLATE 143] Representations of evil genii are comparatively infrequent; but we can scarcely be mistaken in regarding as either an evil genius, or a representation of the evil principle, the monster--half lion, half eagle--which in the Nimrud sculptures retreats from the attacks of a god, probably Vul, who assails him with thunderbolts.

[PLATE CXLIII., Fig.