Saturday, September 24, 2011

Enheduana


Enheduana /En-hedu-Ana/
The earliest female poet, the history  had known, She was the daughter of king Surgeon , in the city of Ur around 2354 B.C



she was the highest priestess in the temple of nana (Akadian moon God) so she was the only one who was able to name a new ruler to the city , more over the temple was a center of sciences  and observation of sky and stars . She hepled  her father to put the empire together by uniforming the worshipping pf Inana all over it. so she was prietess , poet and princess .. played many important-complex  roles in that ancient society  .

references : 
- about.com 


Leon Jerom , the french orientalist painter , had painted Enheduana as one circle of middle east touched chain of paintaings. 
her Iraqi beauty as we see, black lined eyes , black hiar and fair skin  are  tyrant and unbearable. 
the enviromant behinde her is typical for south iraqi regions. 
the ornaments she wears had been given a great deal of care by  Jerom.  

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