Professor Paul Haupt may be termed the father of Sumerian etymology, as he was really the first to place this study on a scientific basis in his Sumerian Family Laws and Akkadian and Sumerian Cuneiform Texts.
Thus Delitzsch formerly derived the name from an Akkadian god, I or Ia; or from the Semitic nominative ending, Yau; 7 but this deity has since disappeared from the pantheon of Assyriologists.
A cylinder seal from the Akkadian Period shows the Mesopotamian sun-God Shamash as dispenser of divine justice.
Nibiru, for his part, appears to be very similar to the Sumerian god Utu (alias the Akkadian god Shamash ).
Nibiru, for his part, appears to be very similar to the Sumerian god Utu (alias the Akkadian god Shamash).
