equivalents of him in this composition, namely Zababa, Pabilsag, Inshushinak (described as bēl pirišti, "lord of secrets"), Ninazu, Panigara (an alternate spelling of the name Panigingarra), Ḫurabtil (labeled as an Elamite god), Lugal-Marada, and even Lugalbanda (a legendary king of Uruk) and Papsukkal (a messenger god, sukkal of Zababa). Andrew R. George suggests that based on their placement in documents such as the Canonical Temple List, it is possible that some of these gods - Ištaran, Inshushinak, Zababa and Lugal-Marada - could be seen as "local manifestations" of Ninurta by the ancient theologians responsible for compilation of such texts. Michael P. Streck emphasizes that such associations would be typical mostly for late theology. Worship Ištaran was the tutelary god of Der. His temple was the E-dimgalkalamma, "House, Great Bond of the Land." It already existed during the reign of Shulgi, who patronized it. It was rebuilt during the reign of one of the two Kassite kings bearing the Kurigalzu (Kurigalzu I or Kurigalzu II). Later it was destroyed in an Elamite invasion during the reign of Enlil-nadin-šumi, but Esarhaddon subsequently restored it. The temple also had a library attached to it, and the scribes of Der were in contact with those from Uruk and Babylon. However, as of 2010, only seven tablets whose colophons state they originate in Der are known. Oldest attestations of Ištaran are royal inscriptions from the Early Dynastic period from Lagash and Umma. According to an inscription of Entemena, Mesalim of Kish at the command of Ištaran demarcated the border between these two states, represented by their gods Ningirsu and Shara. It has been proposed that Ištaran was understood as a neutral party, similarly to Dagan in Syria, and as such as a suitable deity to ask for resolution of such conflicts. Another king from the Early Dynastic period, Lugalzagesi, called himself a "beloved friend of Ištaran." Evidence for the worship of Ishtaran in the Sargonic period includes a mace head dedicated to him by Naram-Sin of Akkad, found in Ur, and theophoric names from Adab, such as Ur-Ištaran. Gudea, who reigned after the fall of the Akkadian Empire, in an inscription compared himself to Ištaran, asserting that like him he would declare just judgments not only for Sumerians and Akkadians, but even for "a brute from Gutium." A daughter of Shulgi, who reigned in the following Ur III period bore the name ME-Ištaran (reading of