Nişir
vs. Nimush – Lambert
“The reading of the name is in
greater doubt, since, though it was first rendered Nizir (by George
Smith), others later pointed out that either Ni-şir or Ni-muš
is equally possible. An Old Babylonian piece of an
administrative document, YBC 7088 published by A. Goetze in BASOR
95 (1944), 18-24, provides one item of evidence so far overlooked in
this context. It is a list of labourers’ names with wages for
each, and according to Goetze it is to be dated to about the reign
of Rim-Sin I by the paleography,”ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark