- Amat-Mamu
Amat-Mamu, fl. ca. 1750 B.C.,
Sippar in ancientBabylonia , was a scribe whose existence is known from thecuniform tablets on which she wrote.Amat-Mamu was a
Naditu priestess and temple scribe in Sippar, in ancient Babylonia. We know she lived in the gagum, a walled cloister precinct inhabited exclusively by women.Her name is known through Naditu documents that show Amat-Mamu was one of eight scribes within Sippar's gagum. Her career spanned the reigns of three kings,
Hammurabi (1792–1750 B.C.),Samsu-iluna (1749–1712 B.C.), andAbi-eshuh (1711–1684 B.C.).References
* [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/amat_mamu.php Amat-Mamu] at the Brooklyn Museum , Dinner party database. Accessed September 2007
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0256(1962)16%3A1%3C1%3ABNOTNW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 Biographical Notes on the naditu Women of Sippar] Rivkah Harris, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1962), pp. 1-12 doi:10.2307/1359426 Accessed September 2007
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