Earlier this month I attended (virtually) a mathematics conference and focused my attention on sessions that linked math and the arts. One of these was a math-poetry presentation by Sarah Glaz which celebrated Enhuedanna (early Sumerian author -- 23rd century, BCE) "Enheduanna – Princess, Priestess, Poet and Mathematician" and included this wonderfully descriptive poem by Glaz.
Twenty-Eight Lines for the En-Priestess Enheduanna by Sarah Glaz
In the beginning there is no beginning.
Eternity’s dark fingers hold a lantern
casting a glow
over the city-state of Ur,
where the Sumerian princess,
Enheduanna,
high priestess of the Moon God, Nanna,
daughter of King Sargon,
stretches the cord
measuring land and irrigation canals,