and a matter of scholarly debate. Their sons were Nanshak, Pappasanu and Me-SUḪUR (reading of the name uncertain). Marten Stol additionally assumes that Inshushinak and Ishtaran were regarded as sons of Tishpak by the compiler of the god list An = Anum. His sukkal was the serpentine creature bashmu. However, since on cylinder seals a god who might be Tishpak is accompanied by a fully anthropomorphic attendant deity, it is possible that Bashmu in this case was the name of an antropomorphic minor god which was simply meant to highlight the association between his master and snakes. A further courtier of Tishpak was Abu, also known as Ipahum, "viper." On the seal of Shu-Iliya, a king of Eshnunna, Tishpak appears alongside the goddesses Belet-Šuḫnir and Belet-Terraban. It is assumed that they had their origin north of Eshnunna, where the corresponding cities, Shuhnir and Terraban, were most likely located. While Tishpak's epithet, "steward of the sea," is generally regarded as a sign that he was viewed as the enemy of a marine monster as described in the Labbu myth, Wilfred G. Lambert proposes that it might instead be a rare occurrence of Tiamat outside the Enuma Elish, rather than a mention of ordinary non-personified sea. A Neo-Babylonian god list identifies Tishpak with Marduk, referring to him as "Marduk of the troops." Frans Wiggermann argues that the mushussu started to be associated with Marduk after Hammurabi's conquest of Eshnunna and suggests that it was a result of influence of the image of Tishpak on that of Marduk. Texts equating Tishpak with another god chiefly known from the official pantheon of Babylon, Nabu, are also known. While most Mesopotamian sources do not treat Ninazu and Tishpak as equivalents, and they appear separately in the prologue of Laws of Hammurabi, a bilingual inscription from the reign of Shulgi of Ur lists Tishpak in the Akkadian version and Ninazu in Sumerian as the god worshiped in Esikil. Wilfred G. Lambert additionally proposed that Tishpak could be understood as a deity connected with Ninurta, based on his association with Ninazu, who shared many traits with the latter. Similarly, Andrew R. George argues that Tishpak's placement in the so-called Canonical Temple List might indicate he was one of the deities who could be syncretised with Ninurta, similar to Lugal-Marada, Zababa or Urash. According to Marten Stol, both classification of Tishpak as a Ninurta-like figure ("Ninurta-Gestalt") and direct