![]() ![]() It helps that Starr does mention a distinction between a mere barmaid who slings drinks and provides patrons with her company, and someone who owns the establishment where this business takes place, a distinction other sources do not mention. So, how can this be? Several sources commend tavern keeping as a respectable occupation, almost making it sound like it was a foot in the door for Ku-Baba to become queen in her own right, while one all but ascribes it to prostitutes. He writes, “Throughout history, a barmaid was typically considered to be a woman of loose morals, freely available to the patrons of the tavern, and little better than a common prostitute.” “So, in what was probably a very important epic even in antiquity,” she writes, “a female tavern-keeper was seen as a guide along perilous paths and a figure worthy of veneration.”Ĭonversely, Starr’s description of the status of a tavern-keeper, or barmaid, is one that is very different from Silver’s. ![]() In it, the tavern-keeper gives Gilgamesh, a powerful god-king, sage advice about the nature of human life, how short it is, and how one ought to enjoy it. Silver drives home the rather high status of the tavern-keeper profession by mentioning Siduri, the female tavern-keeper Gilgamesh meets in the Underworld in his quest for immortality in the epic of his namesake. This complicates further the rationale of a woman tavern-keeper becoming king, but in her article titled, “Kubaba, A Queen Among Kings,” Carly Silver writes, “Regardless of what kind of show they were running, women often ran taverns, holding perhaps one of the only independent female positions of power in ancient Sumer.” Now, aside from Starr, said sources all described tavern keeping as a well-respected occupation, even while some mentioned that taverns in Sumer were pretty much brothels. They then went on to explain that tavern keeping was one of many occupations Mesopotamian women could hold. … the woman tavern-keeper, who made firm the foundations of Kish, became king she ruled for 100 years.Įvery source I came across in my research, including Starr, questioned how a woman who was a tavern-keeper became king. On the list itself, she is identified as: Ku-Baba, Kug-Bau in Sumerian, is the only female monarch on the Sumerian King List. “The hat on the statue most closely resembles a shepherd hat, the crown of a Sumerian king,” he writes. “When I first saw the statue, I believed it was a Sumerian priestess because she seems to be wearing a circular headband,” he writes, “.although for a priestess I thought she was a bit heavy-handed with the makeup.”įrom the eyes, Starr traveled back up to the head, where it became clear to him that it was no headband this statue was wearing–that it was a hat he’d never seen on a Sumerian woman before. What changed Starr’s mind was an alabaster statue at the Louvre from Girsu, with a little too much eye makeup to be just your run-of-the-mill Sumerian priestess, as he had initially believed. “I believed the reference was a sly mean-spirited joke by the scribe who wrote the King List.” “For a long time I doubted that Ku-Baba even existed,” he writes in the post. ![]() He also included a link to a new post on his website, in which he explains in detail how he arrived at the conclusion that Ku-Baba might have existed after all. “I had to revise my opinion,” he wrote to me in a surprise email. His response, which was basically doubt that she existed at all, left me feeling like I was at a dead end at the time, so I abandoned the idea of writing about her.įast forward to today, and Starr has changed his mind. Nonetheless, I wrote to Starr with the hope he would have some information about Ku-Baba, or at least a good source he could point me toward. It was as if I was just imagining this rather intriguing figure. ![]() The grandmother is located sitting near the fountain by the village fountain beside the library.A long while ago, I wanted to write about Ku-Baba, the only woman on the Sumerian King List. I went first to my go-to source on anything Sumerian, Sumerian Shakespeare, and found that Jerald Starr, the brain behind the site, had not mentioned Ku-Baba at all. Turn-in the items to the Tavern Keeper and bring the generated medicine to the grandmother. They spawn less so keep looking.Īn alternative for the plains is to return to the Seafront and buy the Royal Ferns at the Grocers or stalls. Remain the in plains to find the Royal Ferns. Medicinal Herbs can also be bought from item shops while Berries can can be bought from material shops. Gather the Medicinal Herbs and Berries within the Village and the plains. Head to the Village Tavern and look for a the Tavern Keeper.Īfter accepting the quest to make a medicine, you will be asked for three Medicinal Herbs, three Berries, and three Royal Ferns. Trophy List The Tavern Keeper’s Grandmother Side Quest Walkthrough 1 ![]()
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