the first element uncertain). She is known from an archive recording matters related to her estate in Garshana. She was married to a certain Shu-Kabta, a man who was apparently both a physician and a military official. The formula "favorite of Ištaran, beloved of Inanna" (migir Ištaran, naram Inanna) was used by the viceroys of Der Ilum-muttabil (also read Anum-Muttabil), Nidnuša, and a third holder of this office whose name is not preserved, who reigned during Der's period of independence after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur. An inscription of Ilum-Muttabil indicates that he dedicated a new construction project to Ištaran too, but it is unknown if it refers to a temple. An inscription of the Assyrian king Ilu-šūma, mentions Ištaran and his city in passing. This text is the oldest known reference to cities other than Assur in Assyrian royal inscriptions. In later periods Ištaran was worshiped in the treasury of the E-šarra temple in Assur. In the Old Babylonian period, a man bearing the theophoric name Ištaran-nasir was a merchant active in Carchemish and was in contact with Zimri-Lim, the king of Mari, informing him about events such as a festival of Nubandag and the death of king Aplahanda. Multiple people bearing theophoric names invoking Ištaran (dKA.DI or AN.GAL) are attested in the documents of the First Sealand dynasty. Ran Zadok proposes that these individuals originally came from Der. Similarly, It has been argued names from other archives invoking Zababa can be assumed to indicate emigration of the inhabitants of Kish to other parts to Mesopotamia, Lagamal names might point at origin of the families of persons bearing them in Dilbat, while Tishpak names belonged to inhabitants of Eshnunna. Ištaran appears in an inscription from Susa from the reign of one of the two Kassite rulers bearing the name Kurigalzu, and possibly in another from Babylon also attributed to one of them. Ištaran appears in eleven theophoric names from Nippur from the Kassite period under his own name, while further five names invoke Anu Rabû. He appears in eleven theophoric names from Nippur from the Kassite period under his own name, while further five names invoke Anu Rabû. Ištaran (dKA.DI) is also one of the few Mesopotamian gods attested in linguistically Kassite theophoric names, which mostly invoke Kassite deities. He also appears in the Elamite name Kuk-Ištaran, "protection of Ištaran." An inscription of king Marduk-nadin-ahhe of