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Enheduanna was the daughter of King Sargon, and she was made high priestess of the moon god Nanna in the city of Ur. She wrote hymns and poems, mostly praising the goddess Inanna, and she signed them. That makes her the first author in history that we can name.

Her words were pressed into clay tablets in cuneiform, and copies were still being made hundreds of years after she died. A round stone disc found in Ur shows a carving of her, and it is one of the oldest portraits of a named person.