Standard in form of stag-headed snake before worshiper

"The Hittite inscription on this seal contains the names of two important deities, both preceded by the determinative "god." Bossert believes that the names are Shantash and Kupapa ("S[hacek]antas[hacek] and Kupapa," MItteilungen der altorientalischen Gesellschaft, vol. VI, (no. 3, 1932), fig. 19, no. 4 (text pp. 34f.); fig. 26, no. 9, text pp. 44ff.)... The Hittite hieroglyphs indicate that this seal originated in Asia Minor or Syria, the regions where these signs were used approximately from 1400 to 700 B.C. Morevoer, the stag-headed snake indicates Hittite associations, since the stag played a greater part in Hittite iconography than in that of any other people (p. 133). The date of the seal may be indicated by the garment of the worshipers, which corresponds with the robes of the Babylonian crown prince, Shamash-shum-ukin, as portrayed on the stele of his father, Esarhaddon, found at Zincircli (Unger, Assyrische und babylonische Kunst, p. 3, fig. 68). It seems possible that this stele exercised considerable influence on the artists of Zincircli and its vicinity, which would account for the attire of the worshiper on this seal. A dating in the earlier part of the seventh century is thus indicated."--Porada, CANES, p. 156