[6] Frans Wiggermann proposes that many examples of such use are present in Akkadian texts from the second millennium BCE which appear to treat Ninshubur as a masculine deity.
[13] In the role of a family god, Ilabrat could be asked to act as a divine arbiter in personal conflicts[14] or as a witness,[15] in at least one case alongside ghosts of ancestors.
[16] The constellation Orion, known in ancient Mesopotamia as Sipazianna,[17] "the true shepherd of heaven",[18] was regarded as the astral symbol of Ilabrat, as well as Ninshubur and Papsukkal.
[22] A document from Kanesh, an Old Assyrian trading colony in Anatolia, mentions that a golden sun disc was supposed to be manufactured in this city and delivered to Assur as a votive offering for Ilabrat.
[25] In the so-called babilili ritual, written in Akkadian but known only from a corpus of Hurro-Hittite texts from Hattusa, Ilabrat appears as the sukkal of Pinikir,[26] in this context identified with Ishtar, though addressed as an "Elamite goddess.
"[27] Ilabrat appears as a servant of Anu in the myth of Adapa, where he explains to his master that the eponymous protagonist is a mortal man responsible for breaking a wing of the personified South Wind, who was unable to blow for seven days as a result.