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Nin-girsu, it will be recalled, has also traits which connect him with agricultural life, and Ninâ being the daughter of Nin-si-a, one of the forms under which Ningirsu-Ninib appears, we may connect Nisaba directly with the cults of which Lagash formed the center. Nisaba must have been the consort of one of the agricultural gods, whose jurisdiction falls within Gudea's empire.
The association of the number fifty with Ningirsu-Ninib leads to the name E-ninnu, 'house of fifty, for his temple in Lagash. Again, the position of Anu in the pantheon accounts for the name E-adda, 'house of the father, given to his temple, just as E-nin-makh, 'the house of the great lady, the name of a chapel in Babylon, at once recalls a goddess like Ishtar.
But, since the list in question furnishes the name of no less than thirteen sacred edifices, we are certain that as many as four or five smaller chapels surrounded the precinct in which stood the great temple E-Ninnu, sacred to Gudea's chief god Ningirsu-Ninib. The list is headed by the sanctuary to Nin-girsu.
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