Hadabal

Hadabal
Tutelary god of the Orontes valley
Major cult centerEbla, Luban, Larugadu, Hamadu[1]
ConsortBa'altum (dBAD.MUNUS)[2]

Hadabal (also spelled 'Adabal[3]) was a god worshiped in Ebla and its surroundings in the third millennium BCE. He was one of the main gods of that area, and appears frequently in Eblaite documents. His character is not well understood, though it has been proposed that he might have been an agricultural or lunar god. Like the city's tutelary god Kura and his wife Barama, he is absent from sources postdating the destruction of Ebla.

  1. ^ Archi 2015, p. 20.
  2. ^ Archi 2015, p. 510.
  3. ^ Schwemer 2007, p. 154.