In Borsippa, considered to be interconnected with Babylon in the sphere of religion, Gula is attested at least since the Neo-Assyrian period. Nebuchadnezzar II restored her temple in this city, the Egula, "big house." A secondary manifestation of this goddess worshiped locally, Gula (ša) abbi, most likely to be understood as "Gula of the ancestors," might have been either a remnant of a domestic cult predating Gula's presence in royal inscriptions from Borsippa, or an unidentified local deity who came to be equated with her.
