[7] However, as pointed out by Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Gunura does not appear in connection with another closely related goddess, Ninkarrak, in any known sources, with the exception of a single bilingual text.
[11] She suggests Gunura might have originally arisen as an independent healing deity, and was only incorporated into the circles of medicine goddesses for that reason.
[18] Documents from the archives of the Third Dynasty of Ur indicate that sometimes offerings to her were made by practitioners of medicine (asû), with historically notable members of this profession who performed them including Šu-kabta, Nawir-ilum and Ubartum.
[1] A seat of Gunura, the Eankuga, "house of pure heaven," existed in one of the temples bearing the name Erabriri, according to Andrew R. George located in Babylon.
[24] Gunura is also mentioned alongside Ninisina, Nintinugga, Damu and Bau in the text AO 17622, which might be an Achaemenid period copy of a Neo-Babylonian original.
[1] For example, in the composition Edina-Usagake ("In the Desert by the Early Grass"[25]) she is mentioned in a list of mourning deities alongside Ningishzida's sister Amašilama and his wife Ninazimua.
[26] Dina Katz suggests that due to the presence of members of families of multiple dying gods this text, known from Old Babylonian copies though possibly related to rituals performed in the Ur III period already, might have been based on a number of originally separate laments.
[28] In Ninisina's Journey to Nippur Gunura appears alongside her brother Damu, and both of them either collectively act as a "good protective spirit", Alad-šaga, or are accompanied by a being bearing this name.