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Jushur (cuneiform: ĜIŠ.UR3; Sumerian: ''Ĝušur'') appears as a king of
Kish Kish may refer to: Geography * Gishi, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village also called Kish * Kiş, Shaki, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality also spelled Kish * Kish Island, an Iranian island and a city in the Persian Gulf * Kish, Iran, ...
in the ''
Sumerian king list The ''Sumerian King List'' (abbreviated ''SKL'') or ''Chronicle of the One Monarchy'' is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and king ...
'', a literary composition created in
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at the beginning of the second millennium BC. He is either the first king on the list to be mentioned, or the first king after a flood, depending on the version of the ''SKL''. According to the list, Jushur reigned for 1200 years. Jushur does not appear in Early Dynastic inscriptions. His
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, like that of many other kings of the earlier parts of the ''Sumerian King List'', is considered unlikely. Ĝušur has also been transliterated in the literature as Jushur, Jucur, Gushur, Ngushur, and Gishur. An early reading of the cuneiform was ''Gaur''.


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