With Lion on the Relief, Handan Acar Yıldız confronts us with women who will live forever on the lands we inhabit, and with their dark and magnificent destinies.
As the story of Enheduanna—the first female writer in human history, both a princess and a priestess—becomes intertwined with various other women, the past meets the present, and Enheduanna encounters the other women of the East.
From the ages when inscriptions were destroyed to the time when papers are crumpled, up until the moment the fish in the cuneiform script are hunted one by one by primitive harpoons, she continues to tell her story.