There can be little doubt that the Adrammelech, or "Fire-king," whose worship the Sepharvites (or people of Sippara) introduced into Samaria, was this deity.

Sippara is called Tsipar sha Shamas, "Sippara of the Sun," in various inscriptions, and possessed a temple of the god which was repaired and adorned by many of the ancient Chaldaean kings, as well as by Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus.
The general prevalence of San's worship is indicated most clearly by the cylinders.

Few comparatively of those which have any divine symbol upon them are without his.

The symbol is either a simple circle, a quartered disk a four-rayed orb of a more elaborate character.
[Illustration: PAGE 83] San or Sansi had a wife, Ai, Gula, or Anunit, of whom it now follows to speak.
Al, GULA, or ANUNIT.
Ai, Gula, or Anunit, was the female power of the sun, and was commonly associated with San in temples and invocations.

Her names are of uncertain signification, except the second, Gula, which undoubtedly means "great," being so translated in the vocabularies.