Enheduanna of Sumer Summarizations & Questions
Kyle C.
Due 1/28/2011
Summary of Enheduanna of Sumer:
Enheduanna was the daughter and the Akkadian princess of the ruler around 2300 B.C, the greatest Mesopotamian King "Sargon of Akkad." She has been known for the first person to reveal or the first person to use their name in writing. She was actually appointed to the rule by her family; especially her Father. In additional around 2000 B.C, few of the entire women population knew how to write or read. Her poems and literary works written around 2300B.C are the first creations anywhere in the world credited to an individual person.
Enheduanna was also the priestess of the temple Nanna where they worshiped the Moon God of Akkad; this worship was an important role for the royal family.
Questions to answer:
1. The ancient books more than 4000 years ago were, written on soft clay with pointed tool called a stylus. It also looked like small clay pillows, not paperbacks.
2. Her royal family dwelled in a palace located at city-state Akkad, Mesopotamia; her father was the wise ruler of Mesopotamia.
3. Enheduanna had worked and worshiped as a high priestess in the Temple of Nanna where she offered and gave prayers to god/goddess. She had lost her job when her nephew "Naram Suem of Akkad the new king" sent her out of the palace.
4. The author mentions that 50 tablets with her poem written evidences tell her poems were bestsellers at the time.
5. At one stage, Enheduanna had written about the account of her father; the city-states that Sargon had taken united in revolt against him. They besieged the city of Akkad and exiled the goddess Inanna from her temples.
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