His consort bears a name that is simply the feminine form to Anu, just as Belit is the feminine to Bel.

'Anu,' signifying 'the one on high,'-- a feminine to it was formed, manifestly under the influence of the notion that every god must have a consort of some kind.

After Agumkakrimi no further mention of Anatum occurs, neither in the inscriptions of Babylonian nor of Assyrian rulers.

We are permitted to conclude, therefore, that Anatum was a product of the schools, and one that never took a strong hold on the popular mind.

Among the Assyrian kings who in other respects also show less dependence upon the doctrines evolved in the Babylonian schools, and whose inscriptions reflect to a greater degree the purely popular phases of the faith, we find Anu mentioned with tolerable frequency, and in a manner that betrays less emphasis upon the position of the god as a member of the triad.