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Wikipedia, "Enheduanna"

Wikipedia, accessed 2026

A community-maintained tertiary reference on Enheduanna, directly examined. Its strength is a dated biography tied to a named historical dynasty and an honest account of the authorship debate rather than treating the attribution as settled; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than an Assyriological monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Reliability Tier
3
Wikipedia's article on Enheduanna, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for her circa-2300 BCE dates as high priestess of Nanna at Ur, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, her Sumerian-language Exaltation of Inanna and Temple Hymns, her standing as the earliest known named author in world history, and the scholarly debate over whether the attribution is historical or later prestige.
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Wikipedia's article on Enheduanna, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for her circa-2300 BCE dates as high priestess of Nanna at Ur, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, her Sumerian-language Exaltation of Inanna and Temple Hymns, her standing as the earliest known named author in world history, and the scholarly debate over whether the attribution is historical or later prestige.
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Wikipedia contributors
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna
Source Type
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Enheduanna, Historical Figures

This source names Enheduanna directly: "tertiary reference on Enheduanna, directly examined."

Source Wikipedia, "Enheduanna"Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)

This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Prayers, 13 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 6 general references.
  • Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Historical Figures, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 3 general references.
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