Šuqurtum

Šuqurtum was a concubine of king Shulgi, second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur.[1] Unlike several other royal women of the king, she is not well attested in the surviving archaeological record. She is mentioned on a stone vase found at Ur, where she a called his beloved concubine (lukur is the word for concubine).[2] Shulgi appears on the vase too. Otherwise, her name appears in a few economical texts, providing evidence that funerary offerings were made after her death.[3]

References

  1. ^ Weiershäuser, Frauke (2008). Die königlichen Frauen der III. Dynastie von Ur (in German). Universitätsverlag Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-940344-10-6.
  2. ^ Radner, Karen; Robson, Eleanor (2011-09-22). The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-955730-1.
  3. ^ Sharlach 2017, pp. 169–170.

Literature

  • Sharlach, Tonia M. (2017). An Ox of One's Own, Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 978-1-5015-1447-0.
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