Nindub

There is no preserved cosmogonic origin narrative for Nindub in the supplied sources. He appears in Early Dynastic offering lists from Lagash and in Ur III records as a member of the local pantheon associated with Nanshe, and in the Gudea cylinder composition he manifests as a divine ritual technician who provides the temple plan and undertakes purification work during the foundation and consecration of the E-ninnu.

Attestations provide limited iconographic detail. In the Gudea cylinders Nindub is described in a ceremonial image as a warrior holding a lapis-lazuli plate on which he engraved the temple plan; beyond this role-oriented depiction, no fuller standard cult statue form or consistent attire is preserved in the supplied materials.

Nindub operates as a foremost lustration priest and ritual technician: he supplies incense, fills sanctuaries with the smoke of incense, conducts lustration/purification actions, and in the Gudea narrative engraves and bestows a temple plan on lapis lazuli. Secondary summaries link his purification activities with exorcistic function, so his role encompasses preparing sacred space, ensuring ritual purity, and performing actions conceptually tied to expulsion or cleansing of pollution.