Is Q really a modern day Rod and Ring?

"In

Mr. King's Seven Tablets of Creation, there is the description of the gods

giving to Marduk a scepter, a throne, and a ring, upon his preparing to

meet the dragon Tiamat in combat. At the time I read this passage it

seemed to me that here we have a clear indication that the circle and staff

given to Marduk were part of the gift indicated by the throne, viz., sovereign

power. Line 28, as given by Mr. King in his rendering of the fourth

tablet, runs: "They rejoiced and they did homage (unto him, saying),

'Marduk is king.' " The next line, 29, runs: "They bestowed upon

him the scepter, and the throne, and the ring." Mr. King adds in a note

that "the translation of patu as 'ring' is provisional; the patu was certainly

a symbol of power." We have, however, to bear in mind that in Marduk

undertaking the combat on behalf of the gods he is made their face; in

plain language, he absorbs their personality so that he becomes even as

Shamash, that is to say, the sun-god. Thus as the sun-god he takes over

the emblems of the sun-god's sovereignty, the scepter, the throne, and the

ring. "