Inib-Sarri
and Eristi-Aya
| Inib-Sarri was a daughter of
the Akkadian king, Zimri-Lim, and lived around 1790-1745 B.C.E.
Akkad was the northern region of ancient Mesopotamia and was populated by
Semitic peoples. Sumer was directly south of Akkad. Please access the "Women Poets" page at
http://students.alliant.edu/personal/jfarkas/pac/Library/an_sarri.htm
to read a poem by Inib-Sarri that addresses her father. If this
link does not work, you can try to find it by pasting its URL into the
"Wayback Machine" at the internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
.
Eristi-Aya was also the daughter of Zimri-Lim, but she seems to have been placed in a cloister by her parents, as most of her writing addresses that topic. The poem below comes from A Book of Women Poets, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, which was published by Schocken Books, out of New York, in 1980. "A Letter to Her Mother" I am a king's daughter, you a king's
wife. |
 Berthe Morisot's La Lecture, 1869-1870 |
 Map from http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm |
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This page was last updated on 30 May 2006 . Copyright Kimberly M. Radek, 2001.
