no evidence that the worship of Ishara was already widespread in Mesopotamia in this period, however. Other settlements from which the Mesopotamian cult of Ishara is attested include Sippar, Kish, Larsa, Urum, Tell al-Rimah and Babylon. She is also attested in personal names from the Chogha Gavaneh site in western Iran, which in the early second millennium BCE was a predominantly Akkadian settlement possibly connected to the kingdom of Eshnunna. One Babylonian divination manual explaining how to interpret the signs on the carcass of a bird sacrifice identified one possible location as the position of Ishara and Ḫišamītum. It also mentions other deities of western origin, such as Allatum (Allani). As early as in the Akkadian period Ishara, alongside Ishtar, appears in love incantations. In later periods they were invoked in them alongside Nanaya, Kanisurra and Gazbaba as well. Some of these texts use formulas such as "at the command of Kanisurra and Ishara, patron goddess of love" or "at the command of Kanisurra and Ishara, patroness of sex." As noted by Gioele Zisa, Ishara's domain appears to be erotic love in this case. The Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as Atrahasis, nonetheless attest that Ishara was also viewed as a goddess associated with marriage in Mesopotamia. In a number of known love incantations, Ishara is paired with almanu, a common noun of uncertain meaning whose proposed translations include "widower," "man without family obligations," or perhaps simply "lover." In one case the term is written with a divine determinative, as if it were the proper name of a deity. Ishara and almanu occur in parallel with Ishtar and Dumuzi and Nanaya and an unnamed lover. Ishara continued to be worshiped in Babylon in the first millennium BCE. Her temple in that city was Eshasurra, "house of the womb," which according to Andrew R. George can be identified with the building designated as "temple Z" during excavations. A late hymn to Nanaya refers to Ishara as one of the goddesses worshiped in Kish. In Assyria Ishara was worshiped in the temple of Ishtar Assuritum ("Assyrian Ishtar") in Assur in a chapel rebuilt by Adad-Nirari I. It is also possible that the goddess Iblaitu mentioned in the takultu ritual was analogous to her. Association with other deities According to Alfonso Archi Ishara was one of the three commonly worshiped Hurrian goddesses regarded as unmarried, the other two being Allani and Shaushka. Lluis