Song to Inanna, from Enheduanna's nin-me-sar-ra
This is an animated section of Enheduanna's Song to Inanna. It is Cass Dalglish's interpretation of the cuneiform pictographs pressed into clay by the ancient Iraqi poet, prince and priest Enheduanna, 2350 BCE. She is the first writer in history – male or female – to claim written text as her own work. The full interpretation of this work by Cass Dalglish is available as a print book, Humming the Blues, Calyx Books. Animation created with Aaron Gabriel and Andrew Newton.
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