To Nabu, as to Marduk, a consort was given.

Her name was Tashmitum.
The name Tashmitum appears for the first time in the days of Hammurabi.
Attention has already been called to the king's ignoring of the god of Borsippa.

While his attempt to suppress the cult of Nabu was not successful, he did succeed in causing the old consort of Nabu to disappear.

This consort appears to have been no other than Erua.

It will be recalled that up to very late times the tradition survived that her dwelling-place was Borsippa.[136] This is never said of Sarpanitum.
Despite, therefore, the amalgamation of Sarpanitum and Erua, the association of the latter with Nabu's dwelling-place remains impressed upon the memory of the Babylonian scholars, at least.