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COURTESY KAY KOHLMEYER, THE TEMPLE OF THE WEATHER GOD OF ALEPPO (MÜNSTER: RHEMA VERLAG, 2020)

ADAD AND HIS BULL. With bolts of lightning gripped in his hands, the Syrian storm god Adad (or Hadad) stands upon a bull, his attribute animal. In this scene, Adad rides his chariot, pulled by a bull. Dated to c. 900 B.C.E., this panel decorates the Temple of the Storm God in Aleppo, Syria.