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    Enheduanna (Sumerian: 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾 Enḫéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants) was the entu (high) priestess of the moon...
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    anointed priest of Anu" and "the great ensi of Enlil" and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur. Troubles multiplied...
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  • made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad. c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in University of...
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    Enheduanna is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 105 kilometers. Its name was suggested by Gagan Toor from India in a naming contest which was eventually...
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    1163/156853302760197520. Enheduanna; Meador, Betty De Shong (1 August 2009). Princess, priestess, poet: the Sumerian temple hymns of Enheduanna. University of Texas...
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    factanddetails.com. Roberta Binkley (2004). "Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna". Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks. SUNY Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780791460993...
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    (c. 2400 BCE), Akkadian queen, wife of Sargon of Akkad and mother of Enheduanna. Baranamtarra (c. 2384 BCE), prominent and influential queen of Lugalanda...
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  • information) that she was queen of Akkad and the mother of Sargon's children Enheduanna, Rimush, Manishtushu, Shu-Enlil, and Ilaba'is-takal. transliteration and...
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  • En as part of their name include DEnlil, DEnki, DEngurun, and DEnzu. Enheduanna, Akkadian 2285 BC – 2250 BC was the first known holder of the title En...
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  • Judaism", inspired by pre-Israelite Semitic religion priestesses such as Enheduanna, who was a devotee of the goddess Inanna. The word kohenet is the feminine...
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    deities, such as Inanna, were widely worshipped.: 182  The Akkadian poet Enheduanna, the priestess of Inanna and daughter of Sargon, is the earliest known...
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    that they became regarded as effectively the same. The Akkadian poet Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon, wrote numerous hymns to Inanna, identifying her...
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    ISBN 978-0-14-319458-3. Enheduanna; Meador, Betty De Shong (2000). Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna. University of...
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    and those of a number of his children are known to us. His daughter Enheduanna was a high priestess of the moon God in Ur who composed ritual hymns....
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    Dominici Donne Dostoevskij Dowland Durer Dvorak Eastman Eitoku Eminescu Enheduanna Enwonwu Equiano Faulkner Fet Firdousi Flaubert Flaiano Futabatei Gainsborough...
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    Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-75242-9. Emelianov...
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    Intelligentsia (the Japanese name for the Hindu goddess, Saraswati). Enheduanna: A Sumerian high-priestess, who was deified after her death. Grand Kitano...
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    residence of the en priestesses of Nanna, the most famous of whom was Enheduanna. Furthermore, from the Old Babylonian period onward he was also closely...
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    writings of the princess and priestess Enheduanna (c. 2285–2250 BCE). As the first named author in history, Enheduanna's writing exhibits numerous rhetorical...
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    at Delphi, acted as oracles. Sumerian en (Akkadian: entu), including Enheduanna (c. 23rd century BCE), were top-ranking priests who were distinguished...
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    2 and The Pink Panther 2. In Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, she voiced Enheduanna in the episode "The Immortals". In 2014, Amanpour narrated "Women in War"...
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  • civilizations.[citation needed] Among the first known female writers is Enheduanna; she is also the earliest known poet ever recorded. She was the High Priestess...
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    rest of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Selected poets include Enheduanna, Mirabai, Lucretius, Dante, Nazim Hikmet, and Gabriela Mistral. Akbar...
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  • Dominici Donne Dostoevskij Dowland Durer Dvorak Eastman Eitoku Eminescu Enheduanna Enwonwu Equiano Faulkner Fet Firdousi Flaubert Flaiano Futabatei Gainsborough...
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    the invention of writing. The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna, who is credited as the author of a number of works of Sumerian literature...
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    from a collection known as Temple Hymns, traditionally attributed to Enheduanna. The roughly rectangular site, which covers an areas of about 61 hectares...
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    Divine Powers, is a 184-line poem written in Sumerian by the Akkadian poet Enheduanna. It describes An's granddaughter Inanna's confrontation with Mount Ebiḫ...
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    BC (classical Sumerian). The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess and public figure dating to c. the 24th century...
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  • 4324/9781351005982 Babcock, Sidney and Erhan Tamur, eds., She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 BC, New York: Morgan Library and...
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  • crime or literary vandalism (see book burning). Enheduanna (24th–23rd century BC) Hymn of Praise of Enheduanna, only survives in fragments. Homer (8th or 7th...
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