 It was typically used by scribes, temple administrators, priests, cultic singers and exorcists and provided detailed instructions for "auspicious days".Five extant examples have been found, including a bilingual copy in Dur-Kurigalzu, another found in the house of "LÚ.NAR.GAL" "cultic singers" in Aššur and a third in the house of Kiṣir-Aššur, exorcist of the temple of Aššur during the reign of Aššurbanipal.Lambert has argued that "Ludlul bēl nēmeqi" was composed during his reign based upon the identification of the protagonist Šubši-mašrâ-Šakkan with that of a character in a fragment of an epic of the Kassite times, and to the governor, or "lúgar kur", of Ur during his 16th regnal year.