Identifying
Mount Nimush
Nişir or Nimuš? The mountain on which the
Babylonian ark came to rest as
Uta-napiŝtim’s flood receded is written
NI-MUŠ or KUR NI-MUŠ (AKA 306-7, 34-39). From the topographical information of these royal inscriptions it is clear that the mountain lay east of Assyria and across the Lower Zab, and E. A. Speiser, who studied the area on the ground, supported earlier suggestions that Pir Omar Gudrun was the probable choice (AASOR 8 (1926/27), 17 f..). Pir Omar Gudrun, north of Suleimaniyah, northeast of Kurkuk; called
Kinipa by the Lullu/Lullubu
people, and a very impressive peak (Speiser
1926-7).
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