full of “the four regions of the world” (kibrāt arbaʾi or erbetti) and šār erbetti “the four winds”—a notion that occurs in the Bible from the Babylonian period onward (Jer 49:36; Ezek 37:9, etc.). The eyes with which the rims of the wheels were inlaid may be supposed to signify the constant divine watchfulness. Compare what was adduced earlier concerning the many eyes of Kronos and the many “eye-stones” that adorned the tiaras of the Assyrian gods’ statues (S. Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars