Title: Women at the Dawn of History
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 we explore in this volume, 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.
Subjects: Women, Antiquities, Exhibitions, Cuneiform tablets, Seals (Numismatics), Sumerian literature, Texts, History, Sex role, Yale Babylonian Collection