Hadad Statue

The ‘’’Hadad Statue’’’ is an 8th-century BC stele of King Panamuwa I, from the Kingdom of Ya'diya in Sam'al. It is currently occupies a prominent position in the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.

The statue

The inscription was discovered in 1890 in a village north east of Sam’al, during the period of the 1888-1902 German Oriental Society expeditions led by Felix von Luschan and Robert Koldewey. The 34 line inscription is written in the Samalian language, considered to be on a dialect continuum between Phoenician and Aramaic.

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  The inscription (KAI 214)
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  Discovery of the head

References

Bibliography

• Sachau, E., "Zur historischen Geographie von Nordsyrien." SPAW 21 (1892): 313–38
• Belger, C., "Sendschirli II." Berliner philologische Wochenschrift 13 (1893): 355–56, 385-88
• Derenbourg, H., "Pînamou, fils de Karîl." REJ 26 (1893): 135–38
• Halévy, J., "Deux inscriptions sémitiques de Zindjîrlî." RevSém 1 (1893): 77–90
• Luschan, F. von, "Fünf Bildwerke aus Gerdschin." Pp. In Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, I. , Berlin: W. Spemann, 1893
• Müller, D.H., "Die altsemitischen Inschriften von Sendschirli." WZKM 7 (1893): 33–70, 113-40
• Schmidt, N. (1894). Immortality and the Hadad Statue. Journal of Biblical Literature, 13(1), 16-18. doi:10.2307/3268911