# Ubartum

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**Ubartum** () was a female physician who lived in [Garšana](/source/Gar%C5%A1ana), a town in [Mesopotamia](/source/Mesopotamia). Ubartum came from an influential family. Both of her brothers - Šu-kabta and Nawir-ilum - were physicians, too, and one of them was married to a daughter of king [Shulgi](/source/Shulgi).[1] Ubartum is known from about fifty [cuneiform](/source/Cuneiform) texts;[2] 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.[3]

## References

1. Budin, Stephanie Lynn; Cifarelli, Megan; Garcia-Ventura, Agnès; Albà, Adelina Millet (2018-10-04). [*Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YWjxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ubartum&pg=PA153). Edicions Universitat Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-9168-073-4.

1. Al-Rashid, Moudhy (2025-08-12). [*Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ibspEQAAQBAJ&dq=Ubartum&pg=PT145). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-03643-2.

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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