essay
Rites of marriage, divorce, and adoption in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Life, death, and coming of age in antiquity: individual rites of passage in the ancient Near East and adjacent regions • Leiden • Published In 2014 • Pages: 61-72
By: Yoffee, Norman.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses aspects of culture during the Old Babylonian period (including an unsettled phase following the fall of the last Sumerian dynasty), with particular focus on marriage, inheritance, adoption, divorce, and celibate women (nadītus) who were sent to live in temple cloisters as a means of perpetuating family wealth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visiting and hospitality
- Marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000–1600 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Norman Yoffee
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia