Post by account_disabled on Dec 25, 2023 22:49:10 GMT -5
It is not clear who the first writer in history was . In the 19th century, twelve Shin-eqi-unninni tablets, on the Epic of Gilgamesh, in Akkadian cuneiform script, were found by Austen Henry Layard. The tablets were found damaged in the ruins of the library of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria (669-633 BC), which was destroyed by the Persians in 612 BC Gilgamesh must have lived around 2700 BC and if Shin-eqi-unninni wrote that story some time later, then he may be the earliest known writer. In the translation of the Epic, John Gardner dates Shin-eqi-unninni to the 15th century BC, therefore around 1400 BC Enheduanna could then be the first writer, or rather the first female writer of whom we know, who lived much earlier, twenty-three centuries before Christ.
About 4,000 lines of her poetry (hymns) have been reassembled and translated into English. Enheduanna was a heroic and mystical figure, representative of an emerging feminism. Her Special Data works were written in cuneiform between 2285 and 2250 BC. Two of her best-known works are hymns to the goddess Inanna, The Exaltation of Inanna and In-nin sa-gur-ra . A third of hers is titled Hymns of the Temple . In these works you wrote in the first person, then moving on to the third. He also wrote 42 poems that reflect his personal frustrations, hopes, religious devotion, and his feelings about the war and the world he lived in.
She was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, although this is not certain, the first ruler who united the north and south of Mesopotamia. Her mother was Sumerian, perhaps a priestess, and she was from southern Mesopotamia. Irene J. Winter identifies Enheduanna in an inscription as the wife of Nannar (the Sumerian moon goddess) and daughter of Sargon. Sargon certainly believed a lot in Enheduanna, so much so that he elevated her to the position of high priestess of the most important Sumerian temple and gave her the task and responsibility of uniting the Sumerian gods with the Akkadian ones, to create stability in the empire.
About 4,000 lines of her poetry (hymns) have been reassembled and translated into English. Enheduanna was a heroic and mystical figure, representative of an emerging feminism. Her Special Data works were written in cuneiform between 2285 and 2250 BC. Two of her best-known works are hymns to the goddess Inanna, The Exaltation of Inanna and In-nin sa-gur-ra . A third of hers is titled Hymns of the Temple . In these works you wrote in the first person, then moving on to the third. He also wrote 42 poems that reflect his personal frustrations, hopes, religious devotion, and his feelings about the war and the world he lived in.
She was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, although this is not certain, the first ruler who united the north and south of Mesopotamia. Her mother was Sumerian, perhaps a priestess, and she was from southern Mesopotamia. Irene J. Winter identifies Enheduanna in an inscription as the wife of Nannar (the Sumerian moon goddess) and daughter of Sargon. Sargon certainly believed a lot in Enheduanna, so much so that he elevated her to the position of high priestess of the most important Sumerian temple and gave her the task and responsibility of uniting the Sumerian gods with the Akkadian ones, to create stability in the empire.