uncertain. In a Šurpu passage, they occur near Adad and alongside his children Misharu and Uṣur-amāssu. In astrological texts and in the god list An = Anum, Shullat could be identified with Shamash, and Hanish with Adad. However, elsewhere, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh, they are treated as separate deities. "Twin stars" associated with Shullat and Hanish in various works of Mesopotamian astronomy might correspond to Mu Centauri and V Centauri. Worship The cult center of Shullat and Hanish is presently unknown. The oldest attestations of worship of this pair are theophoric names from the Sargonic period. For example, one name invoking Hanish is known from Adab. It has been proposed that they were worshiped in the role of personal or family gods. In the Ur III period, king Shulgi of Ur built a temple of Shullat and Hanish, but neither its name nor location are presently known. Offerings to both of them are also attested in documents from Umma and Puzrish-Dagan from the same period. An individual bearing the name Nūr-ilišu built a shrine (É) dedicated to Shullat and Hanish in Sippar. It is also known that they had a priest (šangûm) in that city in the Old Babylonian period. An oath formula from Sippar, based in part of Sargonic forerunners, mentions Shullat and Hanish: "I swear by Umu (deified day), by Shamash, by Ishtar, by Ilaba and Annunitum, by the warriors Shullat and Hanish, this is not lies, it is true." They also often appear together in Old Babylonian cylinder seal inscriptions. A taboo of Shullat and Hanish is mentioned in an inscription of the Kassite ruler Agum Kakrime: "The one who knows shall show (only) the one who knows, the one who does not know shall not see. The taboo of Shullat and Hanish: Shamash and Adad, the lords of divination." Another taboo is recorded in an oracular text from the Library of Ashurbanipal: "The blind, the gap-toothed or the finger amputee shall not approach the place of divinatory decision - this is the taboo Šullat and Ḫaniš." A late syncretic hymn to Ninurta, which describes his various body parts as analogous to other deities, his upper back is compared Hanish, characterized as a deity "who establishes plenty, who rains down abundance," and his chest to Shullat, whose description is not preserved. Literature Both Shullat and Hanish are mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh (tablet