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c. 2900 BCE - 2700 BCENergal first appears in Mesopotamian religion as a regional god of Kutha known as Meslamtaea.
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2047 BCE - 1750 BCEMeslamtaea becomes Nergal/Erra during the Ur III Period of Mesopotamian history.
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1344 BCE - 1322 BCENergal as Aplu the Plague God cited for bringing the plague during the reign of Hittite King Suppiluliuma I.
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c. 800 BCEProbable date of composition of The Wrath of Erra, describing Nergal's destruction of Babylon.
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c. 626 BCE - 539 BCEBest known copy of The Marriage of Ereshkigal and Nergal written during the Neo-Babylonian Period of Mesopotamian history.