Its site remained vacant for sixty years.
Then Tiglath-Pileser I., in the beginning of his reign, rebuilt the temple more magnificently than before; and from that time it seems to have remained among the principal shrines in Assyria.

It was from a tradition connected with this ancient temple of Shamas-Vul, that Asshur in later times acquired the name of Telane, or "the Mound of Anu," which it bears in Stephen.
Anu's place among the "Great Gods" of Assyria is not so well marked as that of many other divinities.

His name does not occur as an element in the names of kings or of other important personages.

He is omitted altogether from many solemn invocations.

It is doubtful whether he is one of the gods whose emblems were worn by the king and inscribed upon the rock-tablets.