== 外観 ==
『エヌマ・エリシュ』には、尾、太もも、(一緒に揺れる)「下の部分」、腹、乳房、肋骨、首、頭、頭蓋骨、目、鼻孔、口、唇などの身体描写がある。『エヌマ・エリシュ』には、尾、太もも、(一緒に揺れる)「下の部分」、腹、乳房、肋骨、首、頭、頭蓋骨、目、鼻孔、口、唇などの身体描写がある。ティアマトは内臓(おそらく「内臓」)、心臓、動脈、血液を持っている。
In the ''Enûma Elish'' her physical description includes a [[tail]], a [[thigh]], "lower parts" (which shake together), a belly, an [[udder]], [[rib]]s, a [[neck]], a [[head]], a [[skull]], [[eye]]s, [[nostril]]s, a [[mouth]], and [[lip]]s. She has insides (possibly "entrails"), a [[heart]], arteries, and [[blood]].
Tiamat is usually described as a [[sea serpent]] or [[dragon]], although Assyriologist [[Alexander Heidel]] disagreed with this identification and argued that "dragon form can not be imputed to Tiamat with certainty". Other scholars have disregarded Heidel's argument: [[Joseph Fontenrose]] in particular found it "not convincing" and concluded that "there is reason to believe that Tiamat was sometimes, not necessarily always, conceived as a dragoness".<ref>{{cite book |last=Fontenrose |first=Joseph |title=Python: a study of Delphic myth and its origins |year=1980 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=0-520-04091-0 |pages=153–154}}</ref> The ''[[Enûma Elish]]'' states that Tiamat gave [[birth]] to dragons, serpents, [[scorpion men]], [[Mermaid|merfolk]] and other monsters, but does not identify her form.{{sfn|King|1902b}}