Samas had precisely the office of bringing the light "of the wide space of the sky" to the gods and men during the day. For this purpose he went out every morning from the "inside of heaven" through the eastern gate. All on fire and in a chariot driven by two squires and drawn by strong mules, "whose knees do not bend", he ran rapidly up the mountain range that encircles the world, that is, along the line that divides the sky from the earth. The flaming disk, which can be seen from down here, was none other than one of the wheels of the chariot. Having completed the daily journey, the god returned through the western gate behind the metal wall, which closes the part of the sky visible to men, and there he spent the night in his home, Ebabbarra (I-babbarra, «house of Babbarra» that is «of the sun»), of which his great temple of Sippara, called Ebabbarra, was an image. (p. 63)
— DOMENICO BASSI