The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia

by Theophilus G. Pinches

Haran (city, the Bab. Ḫarran), a centre of lunar worship, 147, 195;

Terah and his family migrate thither, 192, 195;

its probable origin, 199, 200;

its ruins, 200;

elephants in the neighbourhood in early times, 200, 201;

its gods and temples, 201, 202, 534;

Esarhaddon (?) crowned there, 201, 202;

Nabonidus restores the temple of Sin, 202;

its renown in later days, 202, 203;

the city besieged, 411;