Kudurru boundary stones depicting the city of Der’s tutelary god Ištaran show the messenger Nirah as one of these animals. Two of these animals appear in the symbol of the vegetation deity Ningishzida. The inscription to Marduk on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon describes the joining of a bull and this animal. One of Ninurta’s “Slain Heroes” is sometimes identified with the Mušmaḫḫū in the praise poem Angim, a (*) seven-headed one of these animals. Two figurines found in the Minoan site of Knossos depict “goddesses” clutching these (10[1])animals (10[1])in both hands. A Near Eastern symbol showing two of these animals intertwined may have influenced the Greek caduceus symbol. For 10 points, name this sort of creature, Mesopotamian depictions of which some scholars have linked to the creature that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. ■END■