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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The founder of the third dynasty of Ur has long been known by the name of Ur-Engur. This has been regarded as an improved reading for Ur-Gur, a form which was once generally used by Assyriologists. The change was made when the publication of fresh material revealed that the sign 
was pronounced engur by the Sumerians. It is not difficult to show that gur is untenable, for this value seems to have been inferred from a fragment of a god-list, K. 4366 (published inCuneiform Texts, pt. xxv, pl. 48, 1. 3), which has:—
page 390 note 1 Cf. also the passage in Reisner, Sumer.-babyl. Hymnen, quoted below.
page 393 note 1 For this version of the name hitherto read Dungi, see Zimmern, , Ber. Sächs. Gesell. Wissen., 1916, No. 5, p. 31, n. 3Google Scholar.
page 393 note 2 The Early Dynasties of Sumer and Akkad, pp. 31, 32.
page 393 note 3 By de la Füye, Allotte in Révue d'Assyriologie, vol. ix, 143Google Scholar.
page 394 note 1 British General Staff Geograph. Sect. No. 2563, where the place is called Tel Ede. I am informed that the proper spelling is probably Tall ‘Ayad.
page 395 note 1 “Synchronous History,” col. iv, 1 ff., and Sm. 2106, rev. (Cuneif. Texts, xxxiv, 41 and 43).