equation between these two gods (Tishpak being described as Ninurta ša ramkūti) is attested in a single document each. In an Ugaritic trilingual god list Tishpak is identified with Milkunni, a Hurro-Hittite god whose name was the combination of the Ugaritic divine name Milku with the Hurrian suffix -nni. The Ugaritic column of the same list (line 27) describes him as ga-ša-ru (Ugaritic: "mighty"; written as gṯr in the alphabetic script), an epithet treated as a divine name in this case which is applied within the same text to two more Mesopotamian deities whose names are not preserved. Aaron Tugendhaft, following earlier restoration proposals, concludes that they can be tentatively identified as Ningirsu (line 43) and Mesagunu (line 45), a minor warrior god from Uruk possibly associated with Nergal or Ninurta. The reading of his name continues to be disputed, and other proposals include Mes-sanga-unug, Messagunug, Pisangunuk and Pisansagunuga. Equating multiple Mesopotamian gods with the same Ugaritic and Hurrian ones in multilingual lists is well attested and is considered to be a result of scribes having to deal with the smaller number of deities present in these pantheons compared to these enumerated in Mesopotamian god lists. It has been suggested that in Ugarit gašaru might have referred to legendary ancestors of the royal family or to an underworld god. It is also attested as an epithet of the goddess Anat. The cognate Akkadian word, gašru, is attested in Emar as the name of a deity as well. In Mesopotamia, the god Gashru was usually associated with Lugalirra or Erra. Neo-Babylonian documents possibly originating in the Eanna archive from Uruk indicate he was worshiped under his own name in nearby Opis. The word gašru and its derivatives is also attested as the epithet or part of epithets of deities, for example Adad, Dumuzi, Ishtar and Ninurta (first attested during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I). Worship Tishpak was chiefly worshiped as the tutelary god of Eshnunna (Tell Asmar), first appearing there in the Sargonic period. His cult retained a degree of importance through most of the Old Babylonian period, much like his city. His main temple was the Esikil, "pure house," originally the temple of Ninazu. Only one reference to a festival of Tishpak, kinkum (the twelfth month of the calendar used in Eshnunna) isin Tishpak, is known. After Eshnunna gained independence after the fall of Third Dynasty of Ur, a royal