[1] Dietz Otto Edzard suggested Ikšudum might be a shortened form of a theophoric name (Ikšud + theonym), but according to Ichiro Nakata this is uncertain.
[3] For example, in a letter whose heading is not preserved an unnamed official implores king Zimri-Lim to send him this pair of deities, as well as trustworthy royal servants, to resolve a problem apparently involving grain.
[7] A similarly named deity, dIk-šu-du or dIk-šu-da, occurs in the god list An = Anum (tablet II, line 273)[8] as one of the four dogs of Marduk, the other three being Sukkulu ("thievish"), Ukkumu ("predatory") and Iltebu.
[4] In early scholarship attempts have been made to identify the four dogs as a representation of Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the planet associated with Marduk, but this view is no longer accepted in Assyriology, and the modern consensus is that the earliest possible reference to one of these celestial bodies being observed only occurs in a Chinese text dated to 364 BCE, attributed to the astronomer Gan De.
[3] Kibri-Dagan, the local governor, in a letter explains that it required a peaceful atmosphere and an entourage of a hundred soldiers.