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299 Fig. 99 that Marduk sent from his new place of exile emissaries and sup- plies (via Harran) to his followers in Babylon, and trading agents into Mari, thereby making inroads into both gateways—the one be- holden to Nannar/Sin and the other to Inanna/Ishtar. As on a signal, with the death of Shulgi, the whole ancient world came astir. The House of Nannar had been discredited, and the House of Marduk saw its final prevailing hour approaching. While Marduk himself was still excluded from Mesopotamia, his _first- born son, Nabu, was making converts to his father's cause. His base of operations was his own "cult center," Borsippa; but his ef- forts encompassed all the lands, including Greater Canaan. Abraham: The Fateful Years