Enheduanna: The world's first named author ... A little-known Mesopotamian poet and priestess, Enheduanna, is the subject of a new exhibition in...
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Elizabeth Winkler writes about Enheduanna, a priestess of ancient Mesopotamia, and an upcoming exhbition about her at New York's Morgan...
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Enheduanna has been known since 1927, when archaeologists working at the ancient city of Ur excavated a stone disc bearing her name (written...
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Enheduanna's name means 'Ornament of Heaven'. She wrote hymns and myths more than 4000 years ago, studied the stars and yet is almost...
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In a radical departure from an otherwise anonymous literary tradition, Enheduanna used poetry not just to extol a deity but also to tell her...
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A new translation brings to life the astonishing voice of the Sumerian princess who was a poet, a priestess — and the world's first named...
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In 153 lines, the poet-priestess praises Inanna (imbued with the warlike qualities of Ishtar) at length. The poem is also powerfully personal. '...
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A priestess named Enheduanna wrote poetry and other texts—sometimes in first-person—more than a millennium before Homer.
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This year marks the fifth anniversary of Enheduanna, the Middle East Women's Initiative flagship publication focused on highlighting voices...
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In Atlas Obscura's Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history.
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