Stephanie writes: The cult of Ishtar was never eclipsed in the Babylonian, or even Assyrian periods. Marduk was, however, the national deity of Babylon, and...
Hello! Yes, Kubaba was a goddess, but she is also the only woman mentioned in the List of Sumerian Kings. I did a quick Google search on her and found a lot of...
Greetings! A more recent reference to her is in Rivka Harris's _Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia_ (pb 2003). What Harris states, though, is that Kubau (new...
I think we should be past the time when history is restricted to the royal propaganda of dynasts (and buying in to that). The gap where Babylonian women should...
... This is a catch-22 indeed. A rare mention of a woman ruler filters through, then is ruled inadmissable, as being considered legendary (more so than the...
... The reference is mainly the Harris biblio. I gave before, and her own references (the most up-to-date I was able to find). This is hardly a catch-22, and...
... Not necessarily. Information about women is hard to come by, especially when it breaks pattern, and it does sometimes. The rarity of a case like Kubau is...
The extent of Betty De Shong Meador's knowledge of Sumerian is not known to me, but her close work on the original texts (which she describes as "in-depth",...
... However, in contrast to the semi-mythical nature of, say, Kubau, we have excellent testimony, archaeological artifacts, etc. about a different Sumerian-Age...
Thank you so much for this! Especially the advanced notice of Munn's new paper. If this is still a topic of interest for you, you may also want to check out...
... I don't know about her current work with any ANE languages, but at the time of her writing _Inanna: Lady of Largest Heart_ from which the snippet came, she...
Thanks for this resource. The Munn article, I might add, is convincing based purely on linguistic issues, and certainly merits more study, but I'm afraid I'm...
SB wrote: I don't know about her [Betty Meador's] current work with any ANE languages, but at the time of her writing _Inanna: Lady of Largest Heart_ from...
Sure, Pu-abi is an excellent example of an important woman, but you are reading _way_ too much into her not being cited. As to semi-mythical, that applies to...
... You have to go back one period: The handles are in the Early Dynastic section. Specifically, Moorey comments on them on pg. 56, and the images appear in...
You will find links to all the currently available digitized books from the Oriental Institute at: ...
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Counting through the first 515 (covering a period from the 3rd millennium down to Alexander's time) of the 600 exponents of the „ancient Babylon" section of...
The workshop "Images of Women and Reconstruction of Gender in Classical, Pre-Modern and Early Modern Literary and Historical Imagination" of the...
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It's impossible for me to attend, but I'd be really interested in at least reading some of these presentations. Will they be published? Even better, will they...
"It's impossible for me to attend, but I'd be really interested in at least reading some of these presentations. Will they be published? Even better, will they...
Katariina Mustakallio
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Of interest from a women's history standpoint. -Stephanie Budin From <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1005648> ...
this might support teaching at Yunnan Univ and research on the Na (aka Muso) 'people with no word for father or husband' My untested hypothesis (see...
Peggy Powell Dobbins
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Because of theories associating the secondary products revolution with women's status in ancient societies, I thought this might be of interest here. ...
Interesting article. Serving the Goddess The dangerous life of a sacred sex worker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/04/080804fa_fact_dalrymple...
Second Call for Papers: RELIGION, SOCIETY AND PARTICIPATION Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages IV August, 20-22, 2009, University of Tampere, Finland ...
