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