Enheduana

 

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Enheduana was the first author to put their name on their tablet that they wrote on. She was a scribe which is someone who could write. They wrote in Cuneiform which was writing on a clay tablet using a tool called a stylus.

                                                 

Enheduana  was the daughter of King Sargon. She was also the sister of two twin boys named Rimush and Manishtusu. They had both became King, but they were both killed.Sargon was raised in a farming family, then he became a cup bearer, and from cup bearer to King, no one knows how that even happened. Enheduana was a very intelligent and motivated person. Her father sent her as a teenager to Ur as a High Priestess. She wrote religious poems, normal poems, and stories. She lived at the top of a Ziggurat so she was closer to the heavens. Enheduana was a very popular author because a long time ago there were not many copies of stories or poems but one of her poems were on over fifty of tablets. After both of Enheduana's twin brothers had died her nephew became King. Enheduana's nephew fired her as a High Priestess and expelled her to the dessert. Her nephew then made his daughter the High Priestess. However now almost nobody knows who her nephew was but everybody knows Enheduana was.