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Dagon (Hebrew: דָּגוֹן, Dāgōn) or Dagan (Sumerian: 𒀭𒁕𒃶, romanized: d da-gan; [1] Phoenician: 𐤃𐤂𐤍, romanized: Dāgān) was a god worshipped in ancient Syria across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come from cities such as Mari and Emar as well.
Name Image Major cult centers Celestial body Details An Anu [52]: Eanna temple in Uruk [53]: Equatorial sky [54] [47]: An (in Sumerian), later known as Anu (in Akkadian), [55] was the supreme God and "prime mover in creation", embodied by the sky. [52]
Ishme-Dagan II Išme-Dagān: c. 1579 – 1564 BC (16 years) Son of Shamshi-Adad II [71] Shamshi-Adad III Šamši-Adad: c. 1563 – 1548 BC (16 years) Son of Shamshi ...
Nineveh (/ ˈ n ɪ n ɪ v ə / NIN-iv-ə; Akkadian: 𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URU NI.NU.A, Ninua; Biblical Hebrew: נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; Arabic: نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē [1]), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Ishme-Dagan I (Akkadian: Išme-Dagān) was a monarch of Ekallatum and Assur during the Old Assyrian period.The much later Assyrian King List (AKL) credits Ishme-Dagan I with a reign of forty years; however, it is now known from a limmu-list of eponyms unearthed at Kanesh in 2003 that his reign in Assur lasted eleven years.
The King of Battle (šar tamḫāri) is an ancient Mesopotamian epic tale of Sargon of Akkad and his campaign against the city of Purušḫanda in the Anatolian highlands and its king, Nur-Daggal [n 1] [1] or Nur-Dagan, in aid of his merchants.
Sîn-šar-iškun (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒌍𒌋𒌋𒃻𒌦, romanized: Sîn-šar-iškun [4] [5] or Sîn-šarru-iškun, [6] meaning "Sîn has established the king") [5] was the penultimate king of Assyria, reigning from the death of his brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Šaluš (Šalaš) was a Syrian goddess who was originally the wife of Dagan. [132] Due to syncretism between him and Kumarbi she came to also be viewed as the wife of the latter in Hurrian tradition. [220] However, she does not appear in this role in any Hurrian myths. [221]