from Susa. However, Paul Delnero argues that his cult was overall not widespread in the Old Babylonian period. In the Kassite period, Šulpae is attested in the inscriptions on a kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash. He is also invoked in two theophoric names identified in documents from Nippur. The Canonical Temple List, most likely composed in the late Kassite period, list a total of ten temples dedicated to him, though their ceremonial names and respective locations are not preserved. The names Eizzišutagga, "house of decorated walls," and Eḫursagga, "temple of the mountains," occur in another similar document, though no location is given for either of them. A lamentation mentions Etillara, "house which smites the steppe." A further temple the reading of whose name, Ešnam-UD, is partially uncertain, is also only known from a text belonging to this genre, though according to Andrew R. George it might also be present in a poorly preserved section of the Canonical Temple List. Šulpae is attested in sources from the Seleucid period from Uruk as well, though he does not appear in any theophoric names or legal texts, and there is no indication that he was already worshiped there in the preceding Neo-Babylonian period. Julia Krul assumes that his introduction to the local pantheon was tied to his astral role, as a general rise of interest in astral deities can be observed locally in late sources. References Bibliography External links A hymn to Šul-pa-e (Šul-pa-e A) in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature The Keš temple hymn in the ETCSL Mesopotamian gods Jovian deities Plague gods