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art from the Akkadian Period until the Hellenistic Period (323 BC-31 BC). This creature, known in Akkadian as the mushussu, meaning "furious serpent", was used as a symbol for particular deities and also as a general protective emblem. It seems to have originally been the attendant of the Underworld god Ninazu, but later became the attendant to the Hurrian

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