To prove this point further, one need only move about 500 miles north, away from Ur, to the city of Nimrud. Queen Pu’abi seems to have been a big deal with her headdress, her 26 attendants and all-around lavish burial fit for a queen, and although nobody knows for sure whether she was indeed a queen or just a high priestess, her extravagant burial serves not only as an indication of her own importance, but that elite women, at least, had the same privileges as men of the elite. I mentioned in the last post (which has undergone a slight change since I posted it) that the most interesting aspect of the most lavish tombs found in Mesopotamia is that they were the tombs of women who ranked high in their societies. Let’s talk about what these tombs tell us about the status of women and the issue of gender in Ancient Mesopotamia. Let’s now talk about more than just material wealth and human sacrifice in the tombs of Ancient Mesopotamia. We’ve established the fact that Mesopotamians were really into extravagant burials of their important folk. A woman's hand mirror with a handle in the shape of a palm found in a tomb at Nimrud.
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