Ennigaldi-Nanna

Ennigaldi-Nanna
Princess of Babylon
High priestess of Ur
Reign547 BC – before 500 BC
PredecessorDaughter of Nebuchadnezzar I
(12th century BC)
DynastyChaldean dynasty
FatherNabonidus
MotherNitocris (?)

Ennigaldi-Nanna (Babylonian cuneiform: En-nígaldi-Nanna),[1] also known as Bel-Shalti-Nanna[a] and commonly called just Ennigaldi,[3][4] was a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and high priestess (entu) of Ur. As the first entu in six centuries, serving as the "human wife" of the moon-god Sin, Ennigaldi held large religious and political power. She is most famous today for founding a museum in Ur c. 530 BC. Ennigaldi's museum showcased cataloged and labelled artifacts from the preceding 1,500 years of Mesopotamian history and is often considered to have been the first museum in world history.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ Schaudig, AOAT 256 2.7; i 25, ORACC
  2. ^ "Brooklyn Museum: Bel-Shalti-Narrar". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  3. ^ León, Vicki (1995). Uppity Women of Ancient Times. Conari Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-57324-010-9.
  4. ^ Moniz, Melissa (2021). "Source of Nostalgia and Archival Recreation: The South African Hellenic Archive". De Arte. 56 (1): 85. doi:10.1080/00043389.2021.1983244. ISSN 0004-3389. S2CID 244679360.
  5. ^ Cohen, Richard (2022). Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past. Simon and Schuster. p. 487. ISBN 978-1-9821-9580-9.
  6. ^ Grande, Lance (2017). Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums. University of Chicago Press. pp. x. ISBN 978-0-226-19275-8.
  7. ^ Walhimer, Mark (2015). Museums 101. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4422-3019-4.
  8. ^ Quinn, Therese (2020). About Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom. Teachers College Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-8077-6343-8.


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