Hommel (_Proc.Soc.

Bibl.
Arch._ xv.

37 _seq._) endeavored to identify the place with Babylon, but his views are untenable.

If Gish-galla was not a part of Lagash, it could not have been far removed from it.

It was Amiaud who first suggested that Shir-pur-la (or Lagash) was the general name for a city that arose from an amalgamation of four originally distinct quarters.
("Sirpurla" in _Revue Archeologique_, 1888.) The suggestion has been generally, though not universally accepted.
[30] That Ninib is only an ideographic form is sufficiently clear from the element NIN-, lord.