[3] Marten Stol refers to two deities, Lugalmea and Ili-mīšar, as his divine attendants,[1] but according to Wilfred G. Lambert, the latter was associated with Imzuanna.
[4] A single Neo-Babylonian letter from Marad refers to Nabu and Nergal as Lugal-Marada's brothers,[5] However, according to Stol this is most likely an example of captatio benevolentiae, and should be treated as a rhetorical device, rather than theological speculation about his genealogy.
[10][11][1] King Lipit-Ishtar built a temple dedicated to him known under the ceremonial name Eigikalamma, "house, eye of the land.
[1] However, Paul-Alain Beaulieu in a more recent study states that the only reference to Lugal-Marada in the entire corpus appears to pertain to the temple of this god in Marad, rather than to any settlement in the immediate proximity of Uruk, and deals with the delivery of dates for which a member of its staff was responsible.
[2] Presence of Lugal-Marada in oath formulas in texts from the unprovenanced archive of Ilum-bani has been used to argue for origin in Marad.