Adrammelech

1. A. and Anamme- lech, the gods of Sepharvaim to whom the colonists, brought to Samaria from Sepharvaim, burnt their children in the fire (2 K 17^'). Adrainmelech has been identilicil with a deity frequently mentioned in Assyrian records whose name is written ideographi- cally AN. liAlt. and AN. NIN. IB. This name has been conjecturally read 'Adar'; and if this con- jecture be right, ' Adar ' may be identified with 'Adranimclech' (i.e. 'Adar-prince' or ' Adar- Molech '). ' Adar ' is a name of Accadian origin, signifying 'Father of decision' (or judgment). 'Adar' was active in sending the waters of the Deluge. (Cf. Schrader, KA T', on 2 K 17"). 2. (2 K I iF', Is 37**) mentioned with Sharezer as one of the murderers of Sennacherib. In Is (/.c.) and in all the versions of Kings (I.e.) the two murderers are described as the sons of Sennacherib, but the Kethibhoi Kings omits 'his sons.' A Babylonian chronicle, referring to the murder, siiys simjily, ' On the twentieth of the month Tcbet, Sen- nacherib, king of Assyria, was killed by his son (rin<7.) in an insurrection.' (See E. Schrader, Keilin- tchriftliche BibliotheU, vol. ii. p. 281, and C. H. W. Johns in Expository Times, vol. vii. p. 238 f., and p. 360. W. E. Haunks. ADRAMYTTIUM CASpoMiTTiov) was an ancient city of the country Mysia, in the Kom. province Asia, with a harbour, at the top of the gulf Sinus Adramyttenus. The pojiulation and the name were moved some distance inland during the Middle Ages to a site which is now called Edremid. It must have been a city of great importance when Pergamos was the capital of the kings of Asia j and hence, when Asia became a Kom. province, Adramyttium was selected as the metropolis of tlie N.W. district of Asia, where the assizes (conventus) of that whole district were held. Its ships made trading voyages along the coast? of Asia and as far as Syria (Ac 27") ; and a kind of ointment exported from the city was highly esteemed (Pliny, NJI xiii. 2. 5). Its importance as a trading centre is shown by its being one of the cities where cistophori, the great commercial coinage of the east, were struck be- tween 133 and 67 B.C. It suti'ered greatly during the Mitliridatic wars, and rather declined in im- portance ; but, even as late as the 3rd cent., under Caracalla, it still ranked sufficiently high to strike alliance coins with Ephesus (implying cer- tain reciprocal rights in respect of religious festi- vals and games). W. M. Kamsay.