name giving patterns in Ebla reflected not the popular religion in the documented period, but rather a more archaic tradition. In Darib near Ebla, possibly to be identified with modern Atarib, Ishara was invoked in connection with the funerary cult of deceased Eblaite kings, alongside a god associated with this locality whose name is not preserved and the divine pairs of Hadabal and his nameless spouse, Resheph and Adamma and Agu and Guladu. One Eblaite document mentions that two further locations where Ishara was worshiped were Zidara and Guwanu. Yet another settlement attested in the Ebla texts where Ishara was a major deity was Mane, located on the Euphrates in the proximity of Emar. The city, and by extension a hypostasis of Ishara associated with it, were politically significant for the kings of Ebla, as it constituted their main harbor on the Euphrates. She was worshiped there alongside Šanugaru/Šanggar, a god who likely had lunar character, who was also associated with her in Emar and Ugarit in the late Bronze Age. Another city in Syria where Ishara was already worshiped in the Ebla period, around 2400 BCE, was Nabada (Tell Beydar), where a month in the local calendar was named after her. The major deities of Ebla like Kura or Hadabal are otherwise almost entirely absent from the pantheon of Nabada. In known texts from Mari Ishara is the third most frequent goddess when it comes to appearances in theophoric names of women. Alfonso Archi concludes that she must had been popular in the sphere of personal religion in the area under the influence of that city. Similar theophoric names are also known from Terqa, Tuttul and Ekalte, though they were less frequent in these cities than in Mari. In the late Bronze Age in Emar Ishara was celebrated alongside the city god (dNIN.URTA) during a so-called kissu festival. She is also present in descriptions of the analogous festival dedicated to Dagan, alongside deities such as Shuwala and Ugur. The nature of these celebrations remain uncertain. Curse formulas from Emar pair her with deities such as the city god, the storm god, Dagan or Ninkarrak. Hurrian reception Due to being worshiped in many locations in Syria in the third and second millennia BCE, Ishara was also incorporated into the Hurrian pantheon. Texts from Ugarit written in Hurrian enumerate the following centers of Ishara worship: "Mari, Tuttul with Emar-Sirašše, Mudkin-Nidabe, Yablā-Ališe,