Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING Win CENTURY: ARABIA 739
Nituk was called Lakhamun (by dissimilation from Lakhamum),
Erua, Zag-gi-si, and Telam, while the god Nebo was
called En-zag (abbreviated for En-zag-gi-si,—i. e., " lord of
the goddess Lakhamu "), Muat Izuzu, Dul-azagga (generally
= Shamash, "Sun"), etc., names partly of Sumerian
and partly of Arabian origin.
on the island
In fact an inscription found
of Samak mentions the " Palace of Rimum,
servant of the god Inzag." Furthermore we know that
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Granite Range of Jebel Shammar (Effect of Mirage)
{In the background the mountains A]a and Selma, " the gate of ancestors " of the inscriptions
of Gudea)
Naram-Sin of Akkad (about 3700 b. c.) took from Magan,
along with other booty, an alabaster vase, and that the
kings of Ur (c. 2500 b. c.) had a great deal of intercourse
with Ki-mash (see above) and Sabum (Seba of the Old Testament)
in Central Arabia. As above stated, about 2200 b.
c. an Arabian dynasty succeeded in gaining supremacy over
Northern Babylonia. Later, under the sixth king of this
dynasty, Khammurabi (or, more exactly, 'Ammu-rabi, the
Biblical Amraphel), the contemporary of Abraham, their