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The First Named Poet
Shes issus i, she is regarded as the first named poet excavations in her part of the world. At er she was a high priestess of a temple which was physically quite close to the palace. The gods and goddesses were the pantheon of those people. And she wrote poetry in praise of and in awe of the gods and nther goddesses. She may have been the daughter of sargon the great, who was a king. Maybe she was high born. There's some tebe even about whether she actually composed the the hymns of praise to which she put her name. You knowh theyre, theyare thre rare. Theyare signed by
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