Girsu

In the third millennium BC, it was a fertile plain densely populated by such cities as Ur, Lagash, Girsu, Larsa, and Umma; today, the shifting course of the Euphrates and Saddam Hussein's brutal campaign to drain the marshes, to the southeast, have left it in large part an impoverished wasteland.

The Devastation of Iraq's Past Eakin, Hugh 2008

Right, a diorite statue of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, from Girsu (modern Tello), Mesopotamia.

Books: Delight to the Eye 2003

Possibly in this case it is the god Nin-Girsu who is being honoured.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

The goddess Bau, "the mother of Lagash", was worshipped in conjunction with other deities, including the god Nin-Girsu, an agricultural deity, and therefore a deity of war, who had solar attributes.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Nin-Girsu, a lion slays a bull as the Zu bird slays serpents in the folk tale, suggesting the wars of totemic deities, according to one

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

En Mersi (Nin-Girsu) "was translated into Semitic," a white kid of

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Nin-Girsu, the god of Lagash, who was identified with Tammuz, was depicted as a lion-headed eagle.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Tammuz, like Anshar, as sentinel of the night heaven, was a goat, as was also Nin-Girsu of Lagash.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Nin-Girsu, that his city goddess was named Nidaba.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

At Nippur he thus honoured Enlil, at Eridu the god Ea, at Ur the god Sin, at Erech the god Anu and the goddess Nana (Ishtar), at Kish the god Zamama and the goddess Ma-ma, at Cuthah the god Nergal, at Lagash the god Nin-Girsu, while at Adab and Akkad, "celebrated for its wide squares", and other centres he carried out religious and public works.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904