Tashmit has no shrine or temple, so far as known, either in Borsippa or in any of the places whither the Nabu cult spread.

She has no attributes other than those that belong to Nabu, and, what is very remarkable, the later Babylonian kings, such as Nebuchadnezzar II., when they deem it proper to attach a consort to Nabu call her Nana,[138] _i.e._, simply the lady, and not Tashmitum, a proof, how little hold the name had taken upon the Babylonian populace.

If to this it be added, that in by far the greater number of instances, no reference whatsoever to a consort is made when Nabu is spoken of, an additional reason is found for the unreal, the shadowy character of this goddess.
Ea.
In treating of the position occupied by Ea in the oldest period of Babylonian history (see above, pp.

61-64), it has already been mentioned that he grows to much larger proportions under the influence of a more fully developed theological system.

Indeed, there is no god who shows such profound traces of having been submitted to a theological treatment, and indirectly, therefore, furnishes so distinct a proof of the existence of theological schools in the ancient centers of Babylonian culture, as Ea.