KÚR
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k-r-197-1155480
title:
KÚR
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The cuneiform KÚR sign is used extensively in the Amarna letters. It also has a minor usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Its usage in the Amarna letters is due to the letters' topics of "hostilities", "war", or "warfare" in the discord amongst the city-states and the regional discord in the Canaan region. A large subset of the Amarna letters are written by vassal kings in governorship of cities, towns or regions in Canaan. The sign is a simple two-stroke sign, a horizontal with a stroke slashing do
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Cuneiform sign
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%9AR
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2022-06-11T19:26:40Z
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