Women in Ancient Mesopotamia

Class outline

The Royal Tombs of Ur explore the artifacts of Queen Pu-abi and other important items

Women and Gender in the Ancient Near East a syllabus with a reading list

THE ENHEDUANNA RESEARCH PAGES- for the first known writer of world literature

Enheduanna excellent site, with texts and other information

Women and Mesopotamian Law: The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi two translations of the Code from the Avalon Project at Yale, with a glossary of gods and goddesses

The Code of Hammurabi explainatory notes and text of the Code L.W. King, trans; see also the same translation at Hammurabi's Code of Laws translated by L. W. King, at sacred-texts.com/, at http://www.vt.edu/vt98/academics/books/hammurabi/code;at http://www.lawresearch.com/v10/regs/codeham.htm; at Earth's Ancient History (with commentary) ; at http://www3.sympatico.ca/aal/private/ham-text.html; at Brooklyn College's Core Curriculum materials site; at http://i-cias.com/e.o/texts/political/code_hammurabi.htm; at http://www.piney.com/BabHamCode.html; at the American Atheists site; at http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM; at http://www.utexas.edu/courses/lah350/hamcode.html; at http://www.patrickcrusade.org/eyeforey.htm; and at http://ragz-international.com/code_of_hammurabi.htm with a biography of Hammurabi. Numerous versions of this translation can also be found at several other locations, some included in the links below.

Code of Hammurabi from the Ancient History Sourcebook. King translation along with two commentaries

Code of Hammurabi from Lee Huddleston's world history site at the University of North Texas. Looks like the King translation, but the author does not cite his source.

Code of Hammurabi yet another electronic text from the law museum

The Code of Hammurabi at the Electronic Passport

Code of Hammurabi with commentary from constitution.org; text is duplicated at http://www.sarissa.org/ham_code.html

Code of Hammurabi from the Iraq history site along with an index of gods and other things mentioned in the Code

VERY plain ASCI text copy of the Meeks translation of the Code of Hammurabi

Very Brief Article on the Code of Hammurabi from ancientciv.com

Commentary on the Code of Hammurabi

Commentaries on the Code

Article on Hammurabi and the Code from the CAtholic Encyclopedia. Explores the links between Hebrew law and the code.

Article on the Code of Hammurabi from lyceum.org

Understanding primary sources: Houghton-Mifflin site for social studies teachers

Women in Mesopotamian Mythology

The Epic of Gilgamesh Lee Huddleston's outline and list of URLS where portions of the text are accessible. Please go here to access various versions of the online text, as the list is very complete.

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A musical interpretation

Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Sumerian Mythology FAQ

The Assyrio-Babylonian Mythology FAQ

Although there are sites on the web that sell essays relating to Gilgamesh, I do not reference Internet sites that sell research papers to students.

Women in World History: Mesopotamia

Costume in Mesopotamia course website

General Resources on Mesopotamian Culture from Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library