Full Description
In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as this volume explores, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires. Illustrated in colour and black & white throughout.
Contents
Introduction
Agnete W. Lassen and Klaus Wagensonner
Women's Lives in the Ancient Near East and Facets of Ancient Near Eastern Womanhood
Amy Rebecca Gansell
Women and Seals in the Ancient Near East
Agnete W. Lassen
Between History and Fiction - Enheduana, the First Poet in World Literature
Klaus Wagensonner
From Sammu-ramat to Semiramis and Beyond: Metamorphoses of an Assyrian Queen
Eckart Frahm
"... and in a woman, almost unique"
Agnete W. Lassen and Klaus Wagensonner
Catalogue of Objects
Bibliography
Credits
