in offering lists and in a local god list, in a section dedicated to manifestations of Ishtar. A forerunner to the later god list An = Anum known from Uruk from the same period also mentions her. She is also present in texts from Mari from the period of Zimri-Lim's reign. Theophoric names invoking Šauška are also known from Mesopotamian sources from Puzrish-Dagan, Ur, and Lagash, for example Ur-Šauša and Geme-Šauša, both using the standard Ur III spelling of the name. Hittite reception Šauška was also worshiped by the Hittites, who received her from the Hurrians. The Bogazköy Archive contains many references to Šauška. There are few, if any, references to any "Ishtar-type" goddesses in texts from the Old Hittite period, indicating that Shaushka only gained her importance in Anatolia, attested from the Middle Hittite period onward, under Hurrian influence. The annexation of Kizzuwatna in particular is assumed to be a contributing factor. 25 local hypostases of Šauška or other goddesses represented by the logogram dIŠTAR are known from Hittite sources. In addition to Šauška of Nineveh, these from the cities of Lawazantiya, Hattarina and Tameninga occur particularly commonly. Also common are references to Ishtar of Samuha, usually identified by researchers as the so-called Goddess of the Night. Many of the locations associated with Šauška in Hittite documents were located in northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia, and both she and any other goddesses referred to as "Ishtars" were apparently not associated with any of the oldest Hittite religious centers ike Nerik and Zippalanda. There is nonetheless evidence for worship of her in cities like Katapa and Lanta, which according to Gary Beckman belonged to the central Hittite area, and she likely had a temple in Hattusa as well. Šauška is mentioned in documents from the reign of king Hattusili III, who married Puduhepa, the daughter of this goddess' priest from Lawazantiya, Pentipsharri. Some members of the royal court during his reign had theophoric names invoking Šauška, some of them combining linguistically Hittite and Hurrian name elements. She was also introduced to many northern Hittite towns during the reign of Puduhepa's son Tudḫaliya IV, alongside other foreign deities such as Ishtar of Babylon, Syrian Milku or the "storm god of Assur" (Adad) . Due to the convention of logographic writing of theonyms in Hittite texts, it is difficult to tell what types of clergy belonged to the cult of Šauška and