the later half of the fifteenth century B.C.2 The tablets written for the first generation, Tebiptilla's parents Pubi-henni and Winnirke, can be easily distinguished from the later ones. Pubi-henni appears on only one tablet,3 which is sealed with a cylinder later used by Tehiptilla and engraved in a style which shows On both imprints the Old Babylonian8 scheme of a seated deity receiving offerings from a worshiper9 is transformed in characteristic manner. The goddess wears a miter composed of one pair of large horns on which rests a cone marked by parallel lines. This is an abbreviated rendering of the multiple pairs of horns seen on Old Babylonian and earlier Mesopotamian representations. In Figure 2 her hair falls loosely over her shoulders. Whether or not this also was the case on the seal of Winnirke cannot be stated with cer-