The building of a sanctuary in honor of this deity and his consort was of sufficient importance to make the year known by this event.

Zamama is occasionally mentioned in the religious hymns.

He belongs to the deities that form a kind of court around Marduk.

From syllabaries, we learn that he was a form of the sun-god, worshipped in the city of Kish in northern Babylonia, and it also appears that he was identified at one period with Ninib.

The temple to Zamama--perhaps only a shrine--stood in the city of Kish, which was remodeled by Hammurabi.