Replica of the Durand Stone, inscribed with a formula mentioning Inzak.[1] Bahrain National Museum.
Major cult center
Agarum
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Spouse
Meskilak or dPA.NI.PA[2]
Inzak (also Enzag, Enzak,[3]Anzak;[1] in older publications Enshag[4]) was the main god of the pantheon of Dilmun. The precise origin of his name remains a matter of scholarly debate. He might have been associated with date palms. His cult center was Agarum, and he is invoked as the god of this location in inscriptions of Dilmunite kings. His spouse was the goddess Meskilak. A further deity who might have fulfilled this role was dPA.NI.PA, known from texts from Failaka Island.
Evidence of the worship of Inzak is also available from Mesopotamia, where he appears for the first time in an inscription of king Gudea. He is attested in theophoric names from locations such as Ur, Lagaba and the Sealand. Mesopotamians at some point came to perceive him as analogous to the god Nabu. He also appears as an independent deity in the myth Enki and Ninhursag, in which he is referred to as the "lord of Dilmun." A temple dedicated to Inzak also existed in Susa in Elam. He was either worshiped there alongside Ea and Inshushinak, or functioned as an epithet of the latter god in this city.
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...
was associated with Inzak, the chief deity of Dilmunite pantheon. Several Dilmunite kings styled themselves as "servants of the Inzak of Agarum"; such kings...
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...
associated, though not necessarily equated, with Mesopotamian Ea and Dilmunite Inzak in Elamite context. It has been argued that an Akkadian text attributed...
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...
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...
(Meskilak), Ningiriutud (Ningirida), Ninkasi, Nanshe, Azimua and Ensag (Inzak). In the end, when favorable destinies are proclaimed for all of them, Ninti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ninsikila (Meskilak), Ningiritud (Ningirida), Ninkasi, Azimua, Ninti and Ensag (Inzak). After Enki recovers from the issues ailing him, new roles are assigned...
being Abu, Ninsikila (Meskilak), Ninkasi, Nanshe, Azimua, Ninti and Ensag (Inzak). Dina Katz notes this group of deities does not reflect a specific theological...
an interpretation is implausible, similarly to theonyms such as Tishpak, Inzak and Meskilak. Lexical lists explain Latarak's name as urgulû, "lion", and...
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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