Still, the age of the religious texts not being fixed, it is thus necessary to exercise some caution before using them without the basis of an allusion in the historical texts.
Utu.
It but remains, before passing on, to note that the same deity appears under various names.

Among these are Utu[54] and apparently also Babbar[55] in the old Babylonian inscriptions.

For the latter, a Semitic etymology is forthcoming, and we may therefore regard it as representing a real pronunciation, and not an ideographic writing.

Babbar, a contracted form from Barbar, is the reduplication of the same stem _bar_[56] that we have already met with, in the name of the temple sacred to Shamash.

Like E-babbara, therefore, Babbar is the "brilliantly shining one,"-- a most appropriate name for the sun, and one frequently applied to him in the religious texts.