Pictured here are the Scorpion-Men of the mountains of Mashu. The land of Mashu referred, in ancient times, to the land to the west of the Euphrates, coterminous on one part with the northern regions of the Red Sea, on the other with the Persian Gulf. The name appears to be preserved in that of the classic Mesene, and possibly in the land of Massa of the Hebrews. Scorpion men have the head, torso, arms of a human and the body of a scopion. They were also known as aqrabuamelu or girtablilu. Assyrian myth said they were created by Tiamat, the god of chaos. This image was drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian intaglio, and accompanied a book on ancient Egypt by Gaston Maspero.