"Seal 990 embodies Syrian elements in the garment of the worshiper, a mantle with rolled borders, and in the embracing posture of the nude goddess and the figure with oval headgear. An embracing pair is found also in Louvre A. 934, in hwihc the male figure is attired like a corresponding personage in 946 and the goddess is partly veiled; in this context the pair are interpreted by Frankfort as a divine couple. However, the central figure in 990, a deity with large ears, standing in full-face view, holding snakes, while his body is seemingly wrapped in snakes, recalls the Old Babylonian representation of Nergal, god of the nether world, in seals such as 386. It seems likely that here the late-Syrian engraver confused the traditional figure holding two scimitars, each ending in a feline head, with the divine snake killer or snake god holding snakes, a figure occasionally encountered in Syrian representations."--Porada, CANES, p. 134
"Worshiper before large-eard deity wrapped in snake coils(?) and holding two snakes, between figures, sun disk in crescent, seven globes, Egyptian life sign, one above other -- Nude female in mantle embracing figure with oval headgear -- In sky, four-pointed star(?), eight-pointed star -- Terminal: column of three recumbent animals above tree."--Porada, CANES, 135