# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/enheduanna
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:07.492Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/enheduanna"
name: "Enheduanna"
slug: "enheduanna"
description: "She's credited as the first named author in human history — a Sumerian high priestess whose hymns survived 4,300 years. Whether she actually wrote them is now the sharper question."
tagline: "Akkadian princess; Sumerian high priestess of Nanna at Ur; poet and philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Enheduanna%2C_daughter_of_Sargon_of_Akkad.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
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birthDate: "-2300"
deathDate: "-2300"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.60786
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Religion"
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  - name: "Philosophy"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Enheduanna was appointed high priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur around 2300 BC, likely by her father Sargon of Akkad, to bind his Akkadian empire to Sumerian tradition. Works like the Exaltation of Inanna name her as their voice, and for centuries she was remembered. Then she vanished. In 1927 Leonard Woolley unearthed an alabaster disk at Ur with her name and title inscribed, pulling her back into view. The problem: every surviving manuscript was copied six centuries after her death, in a later dialect, by scribes who may have mythologized her. Modern Assyriologists argue over linguistics and intent. What remains is the disk, the hymns, and the gap between them.