'Belit of Akkad,' whom Nebuchadnezzar invokes, is none other than the great Belit, the consort of Bel.

'Akkad' is here used for Babylonia, and the qualification is added to distinguish her from other 'ladies,' as, _e.g._, 'Belit-ekalli,' who, we have seen, was Gula.
Malik and Bunene.
Upon reaching so late a period as the days of Nabubaliddin (_c._ 850 B.C.), it becomes doubtful whether we are justified in including the additional deities occurring in his inscription among the Babylonian pantheon of the second period.

The occurrence of some of these gods in the religious literature is a presumption in favor of regarding them as ancient creations, rather than due to later influences.

Certainly this appears to be the case with Malik and Bunene, who, with Shamash, form a triad that constitutes the chief object of worship in the great temple E-babbara at Sippar, to whose restored cult Nabubaliddin devotes himself.

Both names, moreover, occur as parts of proper names in the age of Hammurabi.