‘She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.’ at The Morgan Library and Museum
Cynthia Payne
Seated female figure with tablet on lap Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian Ur III period, ca. 2112–2004 BC. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Vorderasiatisches Museum. Photo by Olaf M. Teßmer. AT A MOMENT when it is difficult to imagine human existence fifty years from now, it can be an enormous pleasure, even a revelation, to step back five thousand years ago or so to contemplate the period when written language began. She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia,