Editing Dagon (section)

=== Dagan and Nisaba ===
In some documents from Syrian cities, for example Halab and Ugarit, the [[logogram]] <sup>d</sup>[[Nisaba|NISABA]] designates Dagan.{{sfn|Archi|2004|p=332}} As noted by Alphonso Archi, in [[West Semitic languages|Western Semitic]] languages such as Ugaritic Dagan's name was homophonous with the word for grain (''dgn'' in [[Ugaritic alphabet|alphabetic Ugaritic]] texts), and the logographic writing of his name as <sup>d</sup>NISABA was likely a form of wordplay popular among scribes, relying on the fact that the name of Nisaba, the Mesopotamian goddess of writing, could simply be understood as "grain" too.{{sfn|Archi|2004|pp=331–332}}