However, if--as we believe--the mother tongue of Abraham and Lot was Sumerian, and the event was first recorded not in a Semitic language, but in Sumerian, an entirely different and more plausible understanding of the fate of Lot's wife becomes possible.However, since the tongue of Abraham wasn't Sumerian...
Ni-ib-ri = man of Nippurian origin. Nippur was Sumer's 'religious center.'
Some interesting reading in Chapter 13, "Abraham: The Fateful Years" ['The Wars of Gods and Men" - Sitchin]