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256 Fig. 83 cally mentioned, but Inanna must have been there, too, for it is re- corded that she had gone on to capture Jericho. Lying astride the strategic Jordan River crossing and opposite the Anunnaki strong- hold at Tell Ghassul, Jericho—the city dedicated to Sin—had also rebelled: "It said not ‘It belongs to your father who begot you": it had promised its solemn word, but turned away from it." The Old Testament is filled with admonitions against "straying after alien gods": the Sumerian text conveys the same transgression: The people of Jericho, having given a solemn promise to worship Sin, Inanna's father, have switched allegience to another, alien, god. The surrender of this "city of date-palms" to an armed Inanna was depicted on a cylinder seal (Fig. 84). With the conquest of southern Canaan, Inanna stood at the gate- way to the Fourth Region, the region of the Spaceport. Sargon had THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN