Born: Unknown (circa 2600 BCE), Iraq
Died: Unknown (circa 2600 BCE)
Country most active: Iraq
Also known as: Shubad or Shudi-Ad
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Sometimes archeological research yields up to us only the name and a few details of the life and appearance of personages of the Ancient World. By the very fact of mementos of these people being found, we may assume that they influenced the civilization of their times. Such a person is Shub-Ad of Ur. Ur, as we remember, is the city which Abraham was proud to claim as his home, and we can understand his pride now that we know
more of the remarkable culture which the people of Ur had developed. Shub-Ad is very nearly the earliest queen of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley whose name we know.