God · Mesopotamian
Adad (Ishkur)
Adad (Ishkur), a god of the Mesopotamian world, and the gods ancient sources said were the same.
Tradition: mesopotamian
Documented identifications
| Link | Who said so | Note |
|---|---|---|
| identified as Baal | Ugaritic and Syrian god lists, Late Bronze Age | Baal of Ugarit was the West Semitic Hadad, written with the same logogram dIM as Mesopotamian Adad. |
| identified as Teshub | Mitanni and Hurrian god lists, 2nd millennium BCE | The Hurrian storm god Teshub was written dIM like Adad, and lists made them equivalents. |
| identified as Zeus | Hellenistic and Roman Syria | Hadad was equated with Zeus, with Jupiter (as Jupiter Dolichenus), and with Babylonian Bel. |