Quotes from Amanda H. Podany

women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.

Her house, or temple (the word for both was the same in ancient Mesopotamia)

Sumerian was not the only language spoken in southern Mesopotamia (the region known as Sumer). Akkadian, the Semitic language of central Mesopotamia, showed up in subtle ways as well.