}}, ; Sumerian: e2-engur; Akkadian: bitu engurru). The name refers to Enki's realm. His consort Ninhursag had a nearby temple at Ubaid.

The origin of this temple goes back to a pre-historic sequence of buildings excavated during the 1946 to 1949 campaigns. This sequence starts at level XI in the table below, in the middle Ubaid period.