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エリドゥの都市では、エンキの神殿は「E2-abzu（深い水の家）」と呼ばれ、沼地の端、アブズ（abzu）に位置していたそうである<ref>Green, Margaret Whitney (1975). ''Eridu in Sumerian Literature''. University of Chicago: Ph.D. dissertation. pp. 180–182.</ref>。バビロニアやアッシリアの神殿の中庭にある聖水のタンクも「アプスー」と呼ばれていた<ref>Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, 1992. ''Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: an illustrated dictionary'', ''s.v.'' "abzu, apsû". ISBN:0-292-70794-0.</ref>。ユダヤ教のミクボ、イスラム教のモスクの洗い場、キリスト教の教会の洗礼盤に似た、宗教的な洗い場の代表的なものである。

The [[Sumer]]ian god [[Enki]] (Ea in the [[Akkadian language]]) was believed to have lived in the abzu since before human beings were created. His wife [[Damgalnuna]], his mother [[Nammu]], his advisor [[Isimud]] and a variety of subservient creatures, such as the gatekeeper [[Lahmu]], also lived in the abzu.<ref>{{cite book |last=Orlin |first=Eric |author-link= |date=2015-11-19 |title= Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXH4CgAAQBAJ&dq=abzu+damgalnuna&pg=PA8 |location= |publisher=Routledge |page=8 |isbn=978-1134625529}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Horowitz |first=Wayne |author-link= |date=1998 |title=Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8fl8BXpR0MC&dq=abzu+lahmu&pg=PA308 |location= |publisher= Eisenbrauns|page=308 |isbn=0931464994}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Putthoff |first= Tyson|author-link= |date=2020 |title=Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Cn-DwAAQBAJ&dq=abzu+isimud&pg=PA71 |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=71 |isbn=978-1108490542}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Eppihimer|first=Melissa |author-link= |date= 2019|title= Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtGaDwAAQBAJ&dq=gatekeeper+lahmu&pg=PA188 |location= |publisher= Oxford University Press|page=188 |isbn=978-0190903015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=N. Pope|first=Charles |author-link= |date=2016 |title=Living in Truth: Archaeology and the Patriarchs (Part I): Early Pharaohs