Nişir
vs. Nimush – Lambert
“Several mountains in northern
Mesopotamia were deified and appear in personal names, as briefly demonstrated
by the present writer in Iraq 45 (1983), 84 f. One of these,
Dipar/Dapar, appears in a personal name in the document containing
Iddin-Nimuš. The other names containing Dipar/Dapar are
Old Akkadian (from Gazur and the Diyala) and Old Assyrian. Thus
there is nothing at all improbable in the idea that the
impressive mountain Pir Omar Gudrun was conceived as divine
in the second millennium B.C. and that”ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark