To: 'Ian Charles Hutchesson' <MC2499 AT mclink.it>
Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Labaya and Jacob (George)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:04:55 +0100
> > Whether it's
> > actually Shechem is also another question, though I don't see
> > the problem with proposing a city state of Shechem with its
> > "land" (KUR).
>
> Have you got one other example of a city in the Amarna letters prefixed
> with KUR.?
>
Actually ÌR-Cheba prefers, when it has to do with a city to write,
e.g. URU ú-ru.sa-lim KI (sometimes only URU & name of city). KUR he seems to
use about territorries only. Thus he mentions the KUR ka-si in EA 287:72
(LÚ.MESH KUR ka-si: the people from Kasi]). KUR sha-ak-mi therefore should
mean 'the territory of Shakmu', although we can never be a 100% certain.