Women at the dawn of history /

Women at the dawn of history /

In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, s...

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Other Authors: Lassen, Agnete W., 1979- (Editor), Wagensonner, Klaus (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Babylonian Collection, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 2020.

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Yale Babylonian Collection > Exhibitions.
Women > Iraq > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Cuneiform tablets > Exhibitions.
Seals (Numismatics) > Iraq > Exhibitions.
Sumerian literature > Texts > Exhibitions.
Women > Iraq > History.
Sex role > Iraq > History.
Iraq > History > To 634.

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Call Number: HQ1137 .I72 W66 2020

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