**2. Suggested Reading of Motifs**

I embrace Keel and Uehlinger's reading of the motifs and wish to add on the multivalence of the image of raindrops falling into the lunar crescent. Interestingly, the crescent appears on a seal impressed handle found in stratum VIIb at Tell el-FarȆah, showing two figures next to a crescent on a moon (Keel 2010, pp. 6–7, no. 9) (Figure 2). Unlike other depictions of the crescent moon flanked by human figures who raise their hands towards the crescent, on a pole or hovering between them (Ornan et al. 2017), the arms of the figures on the seal impressed handle stretch down along the sides of their bodies.

**Figure 2.** Tell el-FarȆah seal impressed handle, depicting figures flanking a lunar crescent on a pole (Keel 2010, pp. 6–7, no. 9).
