She could be regarded as the Akkadian counterpart of Sumerian Geshtinanna, but the name could also function as a title of Ašratum, the wife of Amurru, or as a fully independent deity.
[3] In the incantation series Maqlû, Šurpu, and Bīt Mēseri she is asked to bind demons and witches and prevent them from leaving the underworld.
[6] Julia Krul proposes that in Hellenistic Uruk Belet-Seri came to be seen as the vizier (sukkal) of Ereshkigal and perhaps Anu, as she received offerings alongside Papsukkal, well attested in such a role.
[11] In oath formulas accompanying some neo-Assyrian contracts, Belet-Seri appears with a deity named Adad-milki, who seemingly served as her consort.
[14] After the year 484 BCE, the pantheon of this city was restructured due to collapse of the Eanna temple in the aftermath of the failed Babylonian rebellion against the rule of Persian king Xerxes.
[16] Joan Goodnick Westenholz proposed that she and Šarrāḫītu, also not attested in earlier sources from Uruk, replaced Urkayītu and Uṣur-amāssu in the local pantheon.