Editing Resheph (section)

===Aramaic sources===
In the eighth and seventh centuries, Resheph was worshiped in [[Cilicia]].{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=212}} However, the evidence is limited to two inscriptions.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=264}} One of them is [[Aramaic]], and has been attributed to Panamuwa I of [[Samʼal]].{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=210}} He is mentioned alongside [[Hadad]], [[El (deity)|El]], [[Rakib-El]] and [[Shamash]], the main deities of the local pantheon.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=212}} However, he is absent from a similar text on a monument set up by [[Bar-Rakib inscriptions|Bar  Rakib]] for his father.{{sfn|Nabulsi|2017|p=245}} His absence might indicate that in the former case he should only be interpreted as a personal protective deity of the king.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=212}}

Resheph is also mentioned alongside [[Kubaba (goddess)|Kubaba]] on an Aramaic stela from Tell Sifr, a site located near [[Aleppo]], but due to the state of its preservation it provides little information about his position in the local pantheon and his relation to the aforementioned goddess, though according to Maciej M. Münnich it does make it possible to establish that locally he must have been worshiped by members of high strata of society, capable of commissioning such monuments.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=209}} Two Aramaic texts from [[Palmyra]] mention Resheph, in both cases alongside two goddesses, Ḥirta and [[Nanaya]]; he is also attested in the [[Greek language|Greek]] version of one of them alongside [[Hera]] and [[Artemis]].{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=259}}

Aramaic sources do not appear to treat Resheph as a deity of disease, and instead stress his protective character, which might have been the reason behind his association with the [[Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia|Arabian]] god [[Ruda (deity)|Ruda]], “well disposed”, possibly brought northwards by migrating [[Arameans|Aramean]] tribes from the [[Syrian Desert]].{{sfn|Münnich|2013|pp=212-213}} Another possibility is that this portrayal of Resheph was influenced by Ruda in the first place.{{sfn|Münnich|2013|p=213}}