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Women at the dawn of history
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ISBN: 1734342005 9781734342000 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Babylonian collection,

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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, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires

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