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* 26 Jerusalem of Gold — Revisited I discussed the meaning of the unique In an article published over thirty - five years ago, 1 Sumerian phrase uru kù·gi which appeared in line 4 of an inventory list of the trousseau uru kù·gi ( = Akk . of Ahatmilku, queen of Ugarit ( mid - fourteenth century BCE ) : 2 1 ālu hurā ִsu ) ki·lá·bi ( = Akk . šuqultašu ) 2 me’at 15 , “one city of gold whose weight is 215 Though Nougayrol provisionally translated this item as a “couronne murale,” ( sheqels ) . ” 3 he was unable to bring any additional epigraphic evidence for the identification of this piece of jewelry . He supported his assumption, however, by referring to iconographic representations that depict such a crown on the heads of female deities and queens . I, in turn, drew documentary support from rabbinic literature for such a mural crown worn by women, where the Hebrew interdialectical semantic and partially etymological cognate, כל תכשיטי נשים טמאים : עיר של : was well attested . Thus, in m ...
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