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    Inzak (also Enzag, Enzak, Anzak; in older publications Enshag) was the main god of the pantheon of Dilmun. The precise origin of his name remains a matter...
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    Sumu-lěl, the servant of Inzak of Akarum. Sumu-lěl was evidently a third king of Dilmun from around this period. Servant of Inzak of Akarum was the king's...
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  • was associated with Inzak, the chief deity of Dilmunite pantheon. Several Dilmunite kings styled themselves as "servants of the Inzak of Agarum"; such kings...
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  • Dilmun. The other well attested member of the pantheon of this area was Inzak, commonly assumed to be her spouse. The origin of her name is a subject...
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  • All inscriptions bear the same text: Palace of Yagli-El, the servant on Inzak of Akkarum. In one of the inscriptions also Yagli-El's father Riʼmum is...
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    mentioned in Dilmunite inscriptions as the original home of their chief deity Inzak. If so, Agarum probably referred to the mainland area of Arabia lying opposite...
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    associated, though not necessarily equated, with Mesopotamian Ea and Dilmunite Inzak in Elamite context. It has been argued that an Akkadian text attributed...
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    read: "The palace of Rimum, servant of (the god) Inzak, (and) man of (the tribe of) Agarum". Inzak, son of Enki, was a principal god of Bahrain, and...
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    Sumu-lěl, the servant of Inzak of Akarum. Sumu-lěl was evidently a third king of Dilmun belonging to about this period. Servant of Inzak of Akarum was the king's...
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    as similar locations of their major cult centers. Inzak Enzag Dilmun The Sumerians regarded Inzak as the chief god of the Dilmunite pantheon, but the...
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    coast and Bahrain until the 6th century BC, worshipped a pair of deities, Inzak and Meskilak. It is not known whether these were the only deities in the...
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  • (Meskilak), Ningiriutud (Ningirida), Ninkasi, Nanshe, Azimua and Ensag (Inzak). In the end, when favorable destinies are proclaimed for all of them, Ninti...
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    Dilmun, on the Failaka Island, which was dedicated to the local deities Inzak and Meskilak. The Canonical Temple List, which dates to the Kassite period...
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  • opens a sequence of invoked deities which consists of Lugalidda, Laguda, Inzak and Meskilak. Lugalidda, "king of the river," was a similar god frequently...
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  • being Ninsikila (Meskilak), Ningirida, Ninkasi, Nanshe, Azimua, Ninti and Inzak. He is specifically tasked with dealing with the pain of the scalp, which...
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  • Sumu-lěl, the servant of Inzak of Akarum. Sumu-lěl was evidently a third king of Dilmun belonging to about this period. Servant of Inzak of Akarum was the king's...
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  • an interpretation is implausible, similarly to theonyms such as Tishpak, Inzak and Meskilak. Lexical lists explain Latarak's name as urgulû, "lion", and...
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    Ninsikila (Meskilak), Ningiritud (Ningirida), Ninkasi, Azimua, Ninti and Ensag (Inzak). After Enki recovers from the issues ailing him, new roles are assigned...
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  • being Abu, Ninsikila (Meskilak), Ninkasi, Nanshe, Azimua, Ninti and Ensag (Inzak). Dina Katz notes this group of deities does not reflect a specific theological...
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    of foreign origin (much like these of Tishpak or the Dilmunite deities Inzak and Meskilak) and the addition of the sign NIN was meant to make it resemble...
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    control of the events unfolding around him. He greets his brother with “may Inzak and Meskilak, the gods of Dilmun, guard your life” and then speaks to him...
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