Asher-Greve,Julia M. — Frauen in altsumerischer Zeit.

Malibu, Undena, 1985. XXII,223 pp. 32 b./w. plts. Softcover. (Bibliotheca Mesoptamica, vol. 18). Frauen in altsumerischer Zeit'" is an investigation into the role and social situation of women during the Uruk/Jamdat-Nasr and Early Dynastic Periods in Mesopotamia, Elam and Syria. Based on the inter- pretation of archaeological and written sources, aspects of women's lives, their functions and status in the earliest urban cultures are ex- amined. A tentative outline of women's cultural history in these periods is provided [Verso title page]