A bilingual inscription from Palmyra dated to the 1st century equates "Ēl-Creator-of-the-Earth" with the Greek god Poseidon. Going back to the 8th century BCE, the bilingual inscription at Karatepe in the Taurus Mountains equates "Ēl-Creator-of-the-Earth" to Luwian hieroglyphs read as "da-a-ś", this being the Luwian form of the name of the Babylonian water god Ea, lord of the abyss of water under the earth. (This inscription lists Ēl in second place in the local pantheon, following Ba‘al Shamîm and preceding the "Eternal Sun".)