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 brothers were physicians too and one of them was married to a daughter of king Shulgi. Ubartum is only 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.^[1]

References

^ 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

[1] 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

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