Amat-Mamu

Who is Amat-Mamu?

Amat-Mamu, fl. ca. 1750 BC, Sippar in ancient Babylonia, was a scribe whose existence is known from the cuniform tablets on which she wrote.

Amat-Mamu was a Naditu priestess and temple scribe in Sippar, in ancient Babylonia. We know she lived in the gagum, a walled cloister precinct inhabited exclusively by women, similar to a convent.

Her name is known through Naditu documents that show Amat-Mamu was one of eight scribes within Sippar's gagum. Her career spanned the reigns of three kings, Hammurabi, Samsu-iluna, and Abi-eshuh.