guršu I
4Attestations
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kappī ḫurāṣi ša ina gur-še ušēlûni CTN 6, 58: 2 “golden kappu-bowls which they dedicated during the g.” new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) qur-šu marʾēk[a] SAA 10, 185 r. 24 SAAo “meal of your sons”. new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (on the 4th day) gur-šu ša DN SAA 13, 78: 10 SAAo “the g. of DN (takes place)”. new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gur-šu ša DN šākin māti ušakkal Ass. Tempel II, T 44 no. 28 r. 18 “the governor will serve the g. -meal of DN”. Cf. ib. T 54 no. 32: 8 and Arnaud 1975, 183: 36. new
Discussion
On the mng. see Postgate 1974, 70 (“feast, meal”, < qarāšu “to trim meat”). Diff. Parpola 1983a, 119 n. 251 (“wedding night, marriage”, < garāšu “to copulate”); Deller in id./Mayer/Oelsner 1989, 265 (“Hochzeitsmahl”, cf. Arab. ʿurs). The mng. “Hauskapelle” proposed in AHw. 299 is not supported by the known refs.
bīt g/q/ḫurši means “abattoir, kitchen” (Deller in id./Mayer/Oelsner 1989, 265–6, < q/garāšu).