Å uqurtum was a concubine of king
Shulgi, second king of the
Third Dynasty of Ur
The Third Dynasty of Ur or Ur III was a Sumerian dynasty based in the city of Ur in the 22nd and 21st centuries BC ( middle chronology). For a short period they were the preeminent power in Mesopotamia and their realm is sometimes referred to by ...
. 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''). 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.
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21st-century BC people
21st-century BC women
Third Dynasty of Ur