The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Brigitte Lion and Cécile Michel

Women and Work in the Ancient Near East: An introduction

Catherine Breniquet

Weaving, Potting, Churning: Women at work during the Uruk period

Evidence from the cylinder seals

Camille Lecompte

Representation of Women in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists

Fumi Karahashi

Women and Land in the Presargonic Lagaš Corpus

Maria Giovanna Biga

The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ebla Kingdom (Syria, 24th century BC)

Massimo Maiocchi

Women and Production in Sargonic Adab

Adelheid Otto

Professional Women and Women at Work in Mesopotamia and Syria (3rd and early 2nd millennia BC): The (rare) information from visual images

Bertrand Lafont

Women at Work and Women in Economy and Society during ...