470 G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, pp. 163, 164. The statue bears a long inscription, which in the style of its writing belongs to the archaic type represented by the Moabite Stone. The contents of the inscription show that it is earlier than the time of Tiglath-Pileser III. (745-727 B.C.). On Hadad, the Syrian thunder-god, see F. Baethgen, _Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_, pp. 66-68; C. P. Tiele, _Geschichte der Religion im Altertum_, i. 248 _sq._; M. J. Lagrange, _Études sur les Religions Sémitiques_,2 pp. 92 _sq._ That Hadad was the consort of Atargatis at Hierapolis-Bambyce is the opinion of P. Jensen (_Hittiter und Armenier_, p. 171), who also indicates his character as a god both of thunder and of fertility (_ib._, p. 167). The view of Prof. J. Garstang is similar (_The Syrian Goddess_, pp. 25 _sqq._). That the name of the chief male god of Hierapolis-Bambyce was Hadad is rendered almost certain by coins of the city which were struck in the time of Alexander the Great by a priestly king Abd-Hadad, whose name means “Servant of Hadad.” See B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), p. 654; J. Garstang, _The Syrian Goddess_, p. 27, with fig. 5. 471 H. Zimmern, in E. Schrader’s _Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament_,3 pp. 442-449; M. Jastrow, _Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens_ (Giessen, 1905-1912), i. 146-150, with _Bildermappe_, plate 32, fig. 97. The Assyrian relief is also figured in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, _s.v._ “Marduk,” ii. 2350. The Babylonian _ramâmu_ “to scream, roar” has its equivalent in the Hebrew _ra’am_ (רעם) “to thunder.” The two names Adad (Hadad) and Ramman occur together in the form Hadadrimmon in Zechariah, xii. 11 (with S. R. Driver’s note, _Century Bible_). 472 See above, pp. 121, 123. 473 See above, p. 130. However, the animal seems to be rather a goat. See above, p. 133 note. 474 See above, p. 132. 475 G. F. Hill, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia_, pp. 181, 182, 185, 188, 190, 228. 476 E. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alterthums_, i. (Stuttgart, 1884) pp. 246 _sq._; F. Baethgen, _Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_, pp. 76 _sqq._ The idolatrous Hebrews spread tables for Gad, that is, for Fortune (Isaiah lxv. 11, Revised Version). 477 Macrobius, _Saturn_. iii. 8. 2; Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ ii. 632. 478 Ephippus, cited by Athenaeus, xii. 53, p. 537. 479 F. Baethgen, _op. cit._ p. 77; G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, p. 269. 480 See above, p. 151. M125 The Phoenician god El and his wife at Mallus in Cilicia. Assimilation of native Oriental deities to Greek divinities. 481 Strabo, xiv. 5. 16, p. 675.