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Rites of marriage, divorce, and adoption in Old Babylonian Mesopotamiaessay 2014 • Yoffee, Norman
Babylonians • Middle East > Middle East
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)...