Editing Nergal (section)

===IGI.DU===
<sup>d</sup>IGI.DU is attested as a logographic representation of Nergal's name in [[Neo-Babylonian Empire|Neo-Babylonian]] sources, with the reading confirmed by the alternation between it and <sup>d</sup>U.GUR in [[theophoric name]]s.{{sfn|Krebernik|2005|p=281}} However, in a number of Assyrian texts <sup>d</sup>U.GUR and <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU appear as designations of two different deities, with the former being Nergal and the latter remaining unidentified.{{sfn|Krebernik|2005|p=281}} Authors such as Frans Wiggermann and Julia Krul argue it had the Akkadian reading Pālil.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=216}}{{sfn|Krul|2018|p=67}} However, {{ill|Manfred Krebernik|de}} states this remains unconfirmed.{{sfn|Krebernik|2005|p=281}} A deity designated by the logogram <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU was also worshiped in Uruk, with the earliest references coming from the reign of Sennacherib and the most recent from the Seleucid period,{{sfn|Beaulieu|2003|p=282}} and according to Krul should be interpreted as "a form of Nergal".{{sfn|Krul|2018|p=67}} [[Paul-Alain Beaulieu]] instead argues that it is impossible to identify him as Nergal, as both of them appear alongside [[Ninurta]] as a trio of distinct deities in Neo-Babylonian sources.{{sfn|Beaulieu|2003|p=282}} According to the god list ''[[An = Anum]]'' <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU could also be used as a logographic writing of the names of Ninurta (tablet VI. line 192; however, a variant lists the sumerogram <sup>d</sup>GÉSTU instead of <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU) and the [[Elam]]ite deity Igišta (tablet VI, line 182; also attested in Elamite theophoric names).{{sfn|Krebernik|2005|p=281}} It could also be used to represent the names of [[Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea]].{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=215}} Beaulieu points out that in the Neo-Babylonian period two different deities whose names were rendered as <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU were worshiped in Udannu, and proposed a relation with Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea.{{sfn|Beaulieu|2003|p=290}} The single attestation of <sup>d</sup>IGI.DU as a representation of the name of [[Alammuš]] is an astronomical text is presumed to be the result of confusion between him and [[Ningublaga]], the "Little Twins", with Lugal-Irra and Meslamtaea, the "Great Twins".{{sfn|Krebernik|2005|p=281}}