[5] Wilfred G. Lambert remarked that apparently the Mesopotamian compilers of the list were equally clueless about the nature of Nupatik and the origin of his name as modern researchers, and he suggested that the invented etymology might have reflected this, as it is possible it was supposed to designate him as unknown, as opposed to invisible, which was enabled by the nuance involved in use of the word pad and its Akkadian equivalents.

[11] Suggestions that Nupatik can be identified with the Mesopotamian war god Zababa can be found in literature, but according to Gernot Wilhelm [de] this assumption is incorrect, and the latter corresponded to Ḫešui instead in the Hurrian pantheon.

[10] Manfred Krebernik [de] notes that in one of the Hurrian ritual texts from Ugarit (CAT 1.125) Nupatik appears to play the role of psychopomp, a deity leading the dead to the afterlife.

[12] Nupatik was one of the "pan-Hurrian" gods, and as such was worshiped by various Hurrian communities all across the ancient Near East, similarly to Teshub, Šauška or Kumarbi,[13] He was already venerated in Urkesh in the third millennium BCE under the name Lubadag.

[14] The local king (endan) Tish-atal mentions him in a curse formula in an inscription commemorating the erection of a temple of Nergal, alongside Belet Nagar and Hurrian deities such as Šimige.

[4] In the text RS 24.254, which deals with a ritual focused mostly on Hurrian figures, though with local El and Anat also mentioned,[18] he is the last of the gods listed in an instruction prescribing repeating a cycle of sacrifices seven times.

[19] In RS 24.261, a ritual combining Hurrian and Ugaritic elements and dedicated to Šauška and Ashtart,[20] he is listed among recipients of offerings after the pair Ninatta and Kulitta, and then once again after the unidentified deity ḫmn and before Anat.

[3] During the Kizzuwatnean ḫišuwa [de] festival, which was meant to guarantee good fortune for the royal couple, two hypostases of Nupatik (pibitḫi - "of Pibid(a)" and zalmatḫi - "of Zalman(a)/Zalmat") were venerated alongside "Teshub Manuzi", Lelluri, Allani, Išḫara and Maliya.