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Mesopotamia on Madison: The World’s First Author on View at the Morgan

No expertise is necessary to be drawn in by the promise of intimacy with ‘the first author of any gender to be known by name.’

Modern impression with mother and child
attended by women, Mesopotamia, Akkadian,
Ur
Modern impression with mother and child attended by women, Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Ur Via Morgan Library/Courtesy of the Penn Museum

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