First among these shrines is that of Marduk's consort, Sarpanitum.
Neither Hammurabi nor his immediate successor make mention of Sarpanitum, and at no time does she appear independently of Marduk.

The glory of Marduk did not permit of any rival, and so his consort becomes merely his shadow,--less significant than most of the consorts of the male deities.

Her name, signifying the 'silvery bright one,' evidently stands in some connection with the solar character of her consort.
Popular etymology, by a play upon the name, made of Sarpanitum (as though Zer-banit) the 'offspring-producing' goddess.

She had her shrine within the precincts of the great temple E-Sagila, but we are not told of any special honors being paid her, nor do we find her invoked to any extent in incantations or in votive inscriptions.

Agumkakrimi, or Agum (as he is also called), who rules about five centuries after Hammurabi, speaks of having recovered the image of Sarpanitum, and that of Marduk, out of the hands of a mountainous people living to the northwest of Babylonia, in the district between the Bay of Iskenderun and the Euphrates.