She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C.

She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C. brings together for the first time a comprehensive selecion of artworks that capture rich and shifting expressions of women’s lives in ancient Mesopotamia during the 3rd millenium BCE. These women bear testament to women’s roles in religious contexts as goddesses, priestesses, and worshippers as well as in social, economic and political spheres as mothers, workers and rulers. One particularly remarkable woman who wieldedconsiderable religios and political power was the high priestess and poet Enheduanna (ca. 2300 BCE) the earliest-named author in world literature. Bringing together a spectacualr collection of her texts and images, this exhibition celebrates her timeless poetry and abiding legay as an author, priestess, and woman.