From Card: "CAST STATUE OF HADAD. ORIGINAL OF DIORITE AT BERLIN (ROYAL MUSEUM OF BERLIN). INSCRIBED IN RELIEF. FOUND AT GERTCHIN NEAR SENJIRLI, N. SYRIA. CAST PURCHASED FOR ATLANTA EXPOS. ILL., N. MUS. REP., 1896, ADLER & CASANOWICZ, PL. 27. ILL., S.I. ANN. REP., 1922, CASANOWICZ, PL. 24. . PLASTER CAST BEYOND REPAIR, DESTROYED 10/28/70, (JSB)." NEW RUBBER-PLASTIC MOLD AND COMPLETE PLASTIC FIGURE RECAST. PLASTIC MOLDS AND CAST FIG. SENT TO ALEX. VA, BLDG. 3. 9-25-72. PLASTIC MOLD DEACCESSIONED TO BE DISCARDED 5/25/1999 (DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR). PLASTIC MOLD DESTROYED 6/19/2000 - D. NGUYEN, 7/24/2000.
Cast of Colossal statue of weather god Hadad. Original ca. 775 BC basalt statue is now in Pergamon Museum Berlin, inv no VA 2882. Lower part of the body of the statue has Aramaic text which starts "I am Panamuwa, the son of QRL, the king of Ja'udi, I have erected this statue of Hadad, at my eternal grave." Originally the statue would have held lightening rod and an axe. On his round cap are bull horns known as the symbols of divinity. The inscription goes on to read "May the soul of Panamuwa eat with Hadad, may the soul of Panamuwa drink with Hadad."
