as head of household, 39. See also
Mistress of the house
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 157
Neo-Assyrian Period, 894
Neo-Sumerian Period, 198
Old Babylonian Period, 379
inheritance rights, 60–62. See also
Daughters; Wives
Egypt
Demotic Law, 842
Elephantine, 872
New Kingdom, 334
Emar, 663, 679–682
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 507
Neo-Sumerian Period, 208–209
Old Babylonian Period, 397–399
Ugarit, 724
not as officials, 39
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 116
not subject to death at hands of
husband or father, 1003
as parties to actions. See Parties to
litigation
priestesses. See Priestesses
as prisoners
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 967
property ownership by, 39, 47. See
also Wives
Egypt
Demotic Law, 833
Elephantine, 872
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 271
New Kingdom, 317
Third Intermediate Period, 796,
802
Emar, 663
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 928
Ugarit, 724
property sale by. See also Wives
Egypt
Elephantine, 872
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 271
New Kingdom, 318
Third Intermediate Period, 796
Emar, 663
MesopotamiaEarly Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 162
Middle Assyrian Period, 542
Neo-Babylonian Period, 928
as slaves, treatment of, 47
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 274
New Kingdom, 321
husband selling wife as, 47
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 500
Old Babylonian Period, 380–381
status of, 38–39
Alalakh IV, 707
Alalakh VII, 698
Egypt
Demotic Law, 833
Elephantine, 872
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 271
New Kingdom, 307, 317–318
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 108,
116–117
Third Intermediate Period,
796–797
Hittite Kingdom, 636
Israel, 999, 1002
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 533
Middle Babylonian Period, 491,
498
Neo-Babylonian Period, 928
Neo-Sumerian Period, 198
Nuzi, 583
Old Assyrian Period, 448, 452
Old Babylonian Period, 369,
379, 389
Ugarit, 724
taverness, 39
wetnurses, 39
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 514
Old Babylonian Period, 379, 409
as witnesses, 33, 39
Alalakh IV, 707
Alalakh VII, 696, 698
Egypt
Demotic Law, 834
Elephantine, 872
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 271
New Kingdom, 311 1139
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