How was the Hittite moon god Arma shown in religious art?

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In the religious art of the Hittites, the moon god, known as Arma, was depicted as a winged figure. A distinctive feature of his iconography was a crescent worn on his helmet, and he was sometimes portrayed standing on a lion.1

While Arma was a recognized deity in the Hittite and Luwian pantheons, he played a relatively minor role in the surviving religious texts compared to other major figures like the weather god Tarhun or the sun goddess Arinnitti.1