A number of scholars suggest that Meluhha was the Sumerian name for the Indus Valley Civilization.

She was apparently brought from the Near East, where she is known under her Sumerian name of Nanaya.

One inscription of his, found on a boulder, states that Eannatum was his Sumerian name, while his "Tidnu" (Syrian?)

There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site.

Based on the foregoing, we believe that the name Alqush is taken from the Assyrian or earlier Sumerian name for god Siin/Alqush.

Her Sumerian name is Dimme-kur.

The name derives through Akkadian Idiqlat from the original Sumerian name for the river, Idigna.

Here Ammenon, the fourth of Berossus' Antediluvian kings, presents a wonderfully close transcription of the Sumerian name.

The numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues suggest that they build on older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the Early Bronze Age.

Since the Sumerian language has only been widely known and studied by scholars for approximately a century, changes in the accepted reading of Sumerian names have occurred from time to time.