“and since it arrived in Yale with
a group of Larsa tablets and its orthography is southern, it too may
well have come from Larsa. Its particular interest is that a fair
percentage fo the personal names are foreign to the south, being
Amorite, Hurrian and apparently from another, unidentified
linguistic stock. One of the Akkadian names is i-din-ni-mu-uš (I 34,
which includes the unambiguously written divine name Nimuš. It is fully
possible that this is the mountain of the flood story and
Aššur-nāşir-apli’s campaigns.”