Archaeologists digging in a 3,000-year-old Charming Age temple site at Ataruz in Jordan have found a statue of the Moabite bull-shaped god Hadad. The god Hadad appears in the Old Shrine as Rimmon (2 Kings 5:18).
Ataruz was a decision east of the Jordan in Gilead. The decision appears in the Old Shrine as Ataroth and it is mentioned whichever in Numbers 32:3 and 32:34 and it was located in the carry on of the event of Gad. The capital was captured from Sihon, the king of the Amorites and from Og, the king of Bashan (Numbers 32:33). Numbers 32:34 says that "the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer."
The name of the capital very enter in the Mesha Stele as "Ataroth," but Mesha, king of Moab boasted of its destruction:
"Now the men of Gad had continually dwelt in the land of Ataroth, and the king of Israel had built Ataroth for them; but I fought reluctant the decision and took it and spin out all the breed of the decision as a satiation (intoxication) for Chemosh and Moab" (ANET, 320).
Underside are a few excerpts from the article announcing the discovery:
Together with the conclusion are a statue of a bull-faced god and nigh on 300 vessels, lamps and altars for virtuous rituals. In antiquity, the bull was often united to the critical deities of the constituency, as well as El, Hadad and Baal.
A lot of what is accepted of the Ataruz temple has been bookish from Sovereign Mesha, immortalized in a basalt tablet inventory his victories and comings and goings. Civic as the Mesha Stele, the tablet was exposed solid Dhiban and is now on show in the Louvre in Paris.
The Moabites -- whom the Bible says are descended from Moab, a grandson of Lot and a nephew of Abraham -- are whispered to have been Canaanite tribes that crystal-clear in the land relating the Put up with Jordan and the Eastern Throw away solid what is now Dhiban in the 14th century BC. Their dominance came to an end with the Persian invasion on the order of the 7th century BC.
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Claude Mariottini
Tutor of Old Shrine
Northern Baptist Institution
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Tags: Archaeology, Hadad, Bull God, Mesha Stele, Ataruz, Ataroth
