"Penn Museum Collections Database"

“Her great heart performs her bidding.”

“She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance.”

“Humbling huge mountains as if they were piles of litter, ... She brings about the destruction of the mountain lands from east to west.”

“On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness. People look upon each other in anger, they look for combat. Their shouting disturbs the plain, it weighs on the pasture and the waste land. Her howling is like Ickur's and makes the flesh of all the lands tremble. No one can oppose her murderous battle -- who rivals her? No one can look at her fierce fighting, the carnage, the engulfing water, raging, sweeping over the earth, she leaves nothing behind.”

“Spotlight on the Disk of Enheduanna”

“Your great deeds are unparallelled, your magnificence is praised! Young woman, Inana, your praise is sweet!”