Gods and Goddesses
Middle Eastern
Akkadian-Babylonian
Dagan

ORIGIN: Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian)

TYPE: Grain and fertility god.

INFORMATION:Generally linkes with Anu in giving status to cities e.g. the dedications by the ninth-century BCE Assyrian king Assur-nasir-apli at Kalakh. Cult centers existed at Tuttul and Terqa