Inzak
god of Dilmun
Inzak (also Enzag, Enzak, Anzak; in older publications romanized as Enshag) was the main god of the pantheon of Dilmun. The precise origin of his name remains a matter of scholarly debate. He might have been associated with date palms. His cult center was Agarum, and he is invoked as the god of this location in inscriptions of Dilmunite kings. His spouse was the goddess locally written Panipa (dPA.NI.PA) as logo gram and written Meskilak in Babylonia. Panipa is now known from both Bahrain and Failaka Island in Kuwait (Laursen et al. 2026).
Evidence of the worship of Inzak is also available from Mesopotamia, where he appears for the first time in an inscription of Gudea of Lagash. He is attested in theophoric names from locations such as Ur, Lagaba and the Sealand. Mesopotamians at some point came to perceive him as analogous to the god Nabu.
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