Ubartum

Ubartum (fl. c. 2075 BC) was a female physician who lived in Garšana, a town in Mesopotamia. Ubartum came from an influential family. Both of her brothers - Šu-kabta and Nawir-ilum - were physicians, too, and one of them was married to a daughter of king Shulgi. Ubartum is known from about fifty cuneiform texts; eleven of them call her physician. The texts naming her are all of an economical nature. They mostly just provide the information that Ubartum received goods. They cover sixteen years.

References

  1. ↑ Budin, Stephanie Lynn; Cifarelli, Megan; Garcia-Ventura, Agnès; Albà, Adelina Millet (2018-10-04). Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond. Edicions Universitat Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-9168-073-4.
  2. ↑ Al-Rashid, Moudhy (2025-08-12). Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-03643-2.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Kleinerman: Doctor Šu-Kabta’s Family Practice, in: A. Kleinerman and J. M Sasson (Hrsg.): Why should someone who knows something conceal it? Cuneiform studies in honor of David I. Owen. Bethesda, ISBN 978-1-934309-30-8, 177-181