Amat-Mamu

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Amat-Mamu , Flourished circa 1750 B.C., Sippar, Babylonia (modern-day Iraq) was a scribe whose existence is known from the cuniform 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.), Samsuiluna (1749–1712 B.C.), and Abi-eshuh (1711–1684 B.C.).

References

• Amat-Mamu at the Brooklyn Museum , Dinner party database. Accessed September 2007
• 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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