656:. Khaled al-Nashef has argued that it cannot be established if he was introduced there from Dilmun or if he was originally worshiped in this area, and rules out the possibility that he reached Elam through Mesopotamian intermediaries. Theophoric names invoking Inzak are attested in sources from Susa from the Old Babylonian period, but according to Ran Zadok they might belong to people from Dilmun, rather than local inhabitants. Examples listed by Daniel T. Potts and Soren Blau include Inzaki, Kūn-Inzaki, Idin-Inzaku and Watar-Inzak, additionally a man bearing a linguistically
616:. The writing of his name used by the Mesopotamian compilers of this text is rendered by modern authors as Enzag or Ensag. Older publications use the form Enshag. This reinterpretation of the theonym can be translated as "lord of the side." Other possible explanations are "lord who makes beautiful," "lord who brings beauty" or "sweet lord." In this composition he is one of the eight deities created to soothe the pains experienced by Enki, the other seven being
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580:. A text in which Inzak's name (spelled as Enzag) is used to represent Nabu in a context in which other major gods are mentioned under alternate or cryptographic names is also known. According to Manfred Krebernik this association might also implicitly indicate that Meskilak was equated with Nabu's wife
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Marchesi assumes that PA.NI.PA, whose name he renders phonetically as Panipa, was Inzak's spouse on Failaka. A seal from this location which might have belonged to a member of
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Mesopotamian god's name was simply used to represent that of the local one, and he was not worshiped himself in this area. Andrew R. George notes that the presumed association between Enki and Inzak matches the Mesopotamian sources, in
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671:. A temple in Susa dated to the early second millennium BCE and a paved walkway from the same time were apparently dedicated jointly to these gods. It is known from an inscription mentioning the kings Tempti-Agun and Kutir-Nahhunte, preserved as a copy from the reign of
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Sealand and had a hitherto unidentified cult center somewhere in Mesopotamia, though she also points out he appears to be absent from known offering lists.
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Mesopotamia, where the tutelary god of the state was also worshiped as its ruler, and human kings only acted as his representatives. He also suggests that if his theory is correct, the Dilmunite royal ideology might have influenced the position of later
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640:. He is the last of them to be mentioned, and his appearance is preceded by Enki declaring his flank hurts him. After being healed, the latter god assigns roles to the newborn deities, with Inzak being declared the "lord of Dilmun."
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307:(Oman), rather than that Dilmun functioned as a center of copper trade. A third possibility is that Agarum corresponds to Failaka Island, where Inzak was also worshiped. Marchesi notes that the
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Sealand Dynasty, and a cuneiform inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh, c.1500 BC".
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predominates in sources from Dilmun itself. The origin of the name is a subject of scholarly dispute. Gianni
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Failaka was referred to as Egalgula ("great palace") or Egal-Inzak ("palace of Inzak").
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by archeologists. He is referred to as a deity of Agarum in these texts. A similar inscription of another ruler, Rīmum, was already known earlier from the
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