Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:
> Andreas:
>
> Concerning your question about the various names assigned to
> Nimrud, the answer is that "Tell-Nimrud" is the modern Arabic
> name of the site; "Kalhu" is the Akkadian term; Kalah (Calah)
> the Biblical Hebrew; Kalha the Aramaic. So, it has nothing
> to do with the loss of case systems in Akkadian, as _Kalhu_
> would be the standard citation form for the language in
> the Standard Babylonian period, after the loss of mimation.
> Old Babylonian would be _Kalhum_ (unless it's pluralia tantum,
> but my source doesn't say anything about this).
Thanks for sorting that out!
Andreas