The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

in cemeteries that allowed the possibility for elite public display (Cohen 2005 : 80 ). At home, connections with the deceased m ...

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN WOMEN AND AGENCY: A SURVEY FROM LATE URUK TO THE END OF UR III
 Julia M. Asher-Greve A gency, the capacity o ...

specifying sexual differences in texts or images. There are grounds to doubt that Sumerian social structure was strictly patriar ...

juxtapositions such as DAM EN (wife of EN?), NIN EN, SANGA SAL, and PAP SAL may refer to high-positioned women and perhaps pries ...

struction resembling an oven. Women never mingle with men in “masculine” occu- pations which are mostly rendered in complex styl ...

she stands out or is the sole woman in a scene; among groups one can differentiate small groups depicted on naturalistic style s ...

–– Julia M. Asher-Greve –– Figure 18.4 Early Dynastic statues from Sin temple at Khafajeh (Courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad) ...

statue of a woman with an intelligible inscription is that of the daughter of Enentarzi of Lagash, but it was made before he suc ...

banquets. Because religious and socio-political actions were intertwined, all banquets have religious connotations including tho ...

(re)established ownership to the goddess BaU and installed his wife Shasha as head. But Shasha continued the practice of using t ...

Like the rations for men, those for women vary by type of work, but women’s rations were distinctly lower than those of men. So- ...

WOMEN UNDER AKKADIAN RULE During his reign, Sargon of Akkad (c 2324 – 2279 ) conquered Sumer and established a unified, centrali ...

husband’s responsibilities were herds and husbandry. Private family estates are attested for the first time and according to the ...

The years from the fall of the Akkadian empire (c. 2193 ) to the beginning of the Neo- Sumerian period (including the second dyn ...

woman could act without her husband’s consent. Those presumably independent actions may have been limited to the woman’s persona ...

their father’s professions, while girls followed their mother’s. Most mothers had two children (at the time of each listing), wh ...

legal punishment; victims of crimes could enslave or sell into slavery the family of the guilty party. Women slaves could have p ...

Aruz, J. (ed.), 2003 Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New Haven: Yale Uni ...