Ubartum was a female physician who lived in Garšana , a town in Mesopotamia around 2075 BC (in the

Third Dynasty of Ur The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century Common Era, BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians c ...

). 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 50

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texts, eleven of them call her physician. The texts naming her are all of economical nature. They mostly just provide the information that Ubartum received goods. They cover 16 years.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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