Talk:Jushur

Name given of this king dubious
Where did "Jushur" come from? Consulting Thorkild Jacobsen's The Sumerian King List, the best text he had at hand was damaged at this point, & Jacobsen could only suggest a reading "gá (?)-[..]-ùr". Although his edition is considered definitive, & is still frequently cited, he published it in 1939 & undoubtedly much has been learned since. William W. Hallo published in 1963 another text that partly fills this gap & based on it suggests "(giš-)gán-ùr" as the monarch's name. So far nothing that confirms the name. The translation in Ancient Near Eastern Texts (3rd ed., 1970) repeats Jacobsen's reading. The best I can come up with is the reading "Jucur" in this translation of the Sumerian King List, which might be based on the text in Claudine-Adrienne Vincente, "The Tall Leilan Recension of the Sumerian King List", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 50 (1995), 234-270. But until that possibility is checked out, "Jushur" is likely no more than someone's fabrication, & even if it verifies this reading, can be dismissed as a lucky guess because no source was provided for this fact. -- llywrch (talk) 03:56, 11 November 2019 (UTC)