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Caroline Waerzeggers. “Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period”

Reinhard Pirngruber
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Caroline Waerzeggers. “Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period”, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 7.2, 2020, p. 101-131

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1This article analyses the development of marriage practices in Babylonian according to marriage agreements and other legal records, in particular texts relating to the dowry, from the neo-Assyrian to the Achaemenid period. It can be shown that a clear bifurcation of society is in evidence, and the old-established urban elites, priestly families, did not mingle with socially inferior strata (comprising groups of different economic means: the urban poor, immigrants and deportees but also homines novi)

2While until the early fifth century, this difference is also visible in the pertinent documentation, the pattern changes during or after the reign of Xerxes when a homogenizing trend becomes observable. Clauses that were formerly characteristic in marriage agreements of low-status couples disappear from the record, while the dowry became the most important aspects (as has already been the case in texts relating to elite marriages). For the author, this development is grounded amongst others in a levelling of social distinctions in Babylonia, which set in during the reign of Darius and culminated after the repression of the revolts against Xerxes in 484 CBE, when urban elites were decisively weakened.

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Reinhard Pirngruber, « Caroline Waerzeggers. “Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period” », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 42-43 | 2021, document 11, mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2020, consulté le 06 septembre 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/51782 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.51782

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