While women could become priestesses in Sumerian culture and worked in many industries, it is interesting to note that women in texts that focus on the context of political leadership played a nurturing role to strengthen the position of male rulers and heroes. Women did in fact not just live out traditional structural concepts of life since they were involved in physical work, engaged in business, testified in legal proceedings, and were protected by laws that allowed them to own property, as evidenced by archived clay tablets. Their roles were more diverse than has often been assumed and
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