Marriage in ancient Egypt.
The family is the strongest bond and the basis of social life in ancient Egypt, which showed the strength of marital relations in Egypt, where the Egyptian took his wife to help him as a friend in life and to have children. In its entirety, it denotes motherhood and the birth of offspring.
Indeed, the marriage relationship obtained respect, and the marriage takes place between the same social class. We have not yet found or found any brother couple from any class, such as (nobility – middle – common), as King Cambyses asked: – The royal judges about whether the law allows anyone who wants to marry From his sister, they replied in the negative, and this is permissible for the king only.
Where special rules are applied to members of the upper class, which is within the royal family, where a man may take more than one wife, and it occurs mostly from cousins ​​and relatives, but marriages between brother and sister did not exist except between kings, where the eldest daughter of the king marries her half-brother to preserve the royal dynasty.
Marriage Traditions in Ancient Egypt
So far, we have not found inscriptions or documents explaining the rituals and customs of marriage in ancient Egyptian society, so scholars set general rules for the traditions of marriage, where marriage was done just for the sake of puberty. The young man reaches the age and has a source to benefit from his strength. Then he thinks of marriage and the formation of a family, which is one of the basics of the progress of society and the existence of social cohesion between society. I also found religious motives for this marriage, which is that the children of the deceased perform the funeral rites for the parents.
Marriage age
Girls were prevalent among them marrying at an early age, and the sons of peasants were usually married at the age of twelve, mostly from the age of thirteen or fifteen. Young people were once they found their source of livelihood from which they supported their family.
Marriage and Celebration Contracts
There are no confirmed official contracts from pre-modern times, where the first contract was found in 590 BC. It agrees with another contract dating back to the year 550 BC. The main condition for completing the marriage was the agreement or the difference between the two families, and the father of the bride was acting on her behalf in writing the marriage contract. Until the 17th century BC, a woman could participate in her marriage contract, and witnesses from relatives and neighbours attended this contract. Their names were recorded in the contract…
“The promises and pledges of the husband to his wife”
He pledged to her weights of silver and grain as a dowry for the bride, and he pledged to her an amount of oil for his wife every month, a measure of wheat every morning, a monthly salary for managing the house, and a salary for her adornment every year. A big wedding ceremony is held so that the couple receives the blessing of relatives and gifts, and so the bride moves to her husband’s house, which contains his family, to become the lady of the house.
The girl was usually not married to anyone other than her sex. An example of this is found in the Amarna letters, where Amenhotep III refused the request of the Babylonian king (Kadshman Enlil I) to marry him to an Egyptian princess and told him that a princess had never been sent to anyone.
“polygamy”
Polygamy was not limited to kings, but according to a person’s ability and wealth, which was prevalent in the royal palace; for example, Ramses II had seven basic wives, the most famous of whom was Nefertari.
But when the common people were satisfied with one wife, as required by the example of marriage (Isis and Osiris), and this was referred to by Diodorus Sicilian to polygamy among the Egyptians by saying:-
The priest in Egypt takes one husband, but the rest of the men take from the wives what they desire.
This is a picture of a man and his two wives from the 18th family in the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands.Marriage in ancient Egypt.
The family is the strongest bond and the basis of social life in ancient Egypt, which showed the strength of marital relations in Egypt, where the Egyptian took his wife to help him as a friend in life and to have children. In its entirety, it denotes motherhood and the birth of offspring.
Indeed, the marriage relationship obtained respect, and the marriage takes place between the same social class. We have not yet found or found any brother couple from any class, such as (nobility – middle – common), as King Cambyses asked: – The royal judges about whether the law allows anyone who wants to marry From his sister, they replied in the negative, and this is permissible for the king only.
Where special rules are applied to members of the upper class, which is within the royal family, where a man may take more than one wife, and it occurs mostly from cousins ​​and relatives, but marriages between brother and sister did not exist except between kings, where the eldest daughter of the king marries her half-brother to preserve the royal dynasty.
Marriage Traditions in Ancient Egypt
So far, we have not found inscriptions or documents explaining the rituals and customs of marriage in ancient Egyptian society, so scholars set general rules for the traditions of marriage, where marriage was done just for the sake of puberty. The young man reaches the age and has a source to benefit from his strength. Then he thinks of marriage and the formation of a family, which is one of the basics of the progress of society and the existence of social cohesion between society. I also found religious motives for this marriage, which is that the children of the deceased perform the funeral rites for the parents.
Marriage age
Girls were prevalent among them marrying at an early age, and the sons of peasants were usually married at the age of twelve, mostly from the age of thirteen or fifteen. Young people were once they found their source of livelihood from which they supported their family.
Marriage and Celebration Contracts
There are no confirmed official contracts from pre-modern times, where the first contract was found in 590 BC. It agrees with another contract dating back to the year 550 BC. The main condition for completing the marriage was the agreement or the difference between the two families, and the father of the bride was acting on her behalf in writing the marriage contract. Until the 17th century BC, a woman could participate in her marriage contract, and witnesses attended this contract from relatives and neighbours. Their names were recorded in the contract…
“The promises and pledges of the husband to his wife”
He pledged to her weights of silver and grain as a dowry for the bride, and he pledged to her an amount of oil for his wife every month, a measure of wheat every morning, a monthly salary for managing the house, and a salary for her adornment every year. A big wedding ceremony is held so that the couple receives the blessing of relatives and gifts, and so the bride moves to her husband’s house, which contains his family, to become the lady of the house.
The girl was usually not married to anyone other than her sex. An example of this is found in the Amarna letters, where Amenhotep III refused the request of the Babylonian king (Kadshman Enlil I) to marry him to an Egyptian princess and told him that a princess had never been sent to anyone.
“polygamy”
Polygamy was not limited to kings, but according to a person’s ability and wealth, which was prevalent in the royal palace; for example, Ramses II had seven basic wives, the most famous of whom was Nefertari.
But when the common people were satisfied with one wife, as required by the example of marriage (Isis and Osiris), and this was referred to by Diodorus Sicilian to polygamy among the Egyptians by saying:-
The priest in Egypt takes one husband, but the rest of the men take from the wives what they desire.
This is a picture of a man and his two wives from the 18th family in the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands.Marriage in ancient Egypt.
The family is the strongest bond and the basis of social life in ancient Egypt, which showed the strength of marital relations in Egypt, where the Egyptian took his wife to help him as a friend in life and to have children. In its entirety, it denote motherhood and the birth of offspring.
Indeed, the marriage relationship obtained respect, and the marriage takes place between the same social class. We have not yet found or found any brother couple from any class, such as (nobility – middle – common), as King Cambyses asked: – The royal judges about whether the law allows anyone who wants to marry From his sister, they replied in the negative, and this is permissible for the king only.
Where special rules are applied to members of the upper class, which is within the royal family, where a man may take more than one wife, and it occurs mostly from cousins ​​and relatives, but marriages between brother and sister did not exist except between kings, where the eldest daughter of the king marries her half-brother to preserve the royal dynasty.
Marriage Traditions in Ancient Egypt
So far, we have not found inscriptions or documents explaining the rituals and customs of marriage in ancient Egyptian society, so scholars set general rules for the traditions of marriage, where marriage was done just for the sake of puberty. The young man reaches the age and has a source to benefit from his strength. Then he thinks of marriage and the formation of a family, which is one of the basics of the progress of society and the existence of social cohesion between society. I also found religious motives for this marriage, which is that the children of the deceased perform the funeral rites for the parents.
Marriage age
Girls were prevalent among them marrying at an early age, and the sons of peasants were usually married at the age of twelve, mostly from the age of thirteen or fifteen. Young people were once they found their source of livelihood from which they supported their family.
Marriage and Celebration Contracts
There are no confirmed official contracts from pre-modern times, where the first contract was found in 590 BC. It agrees with another contract dating back to the year 550 BC. The main condition for completing the marriage was the agreement or the difference between the two families, and the father of the bride was acting on her behalf in writing the marriage contract. Until the 17th century BC, a woman could participate in her marriage contract, and witnesses attended this contract from relatives and neighbours. Their names were recorded in the contract…
“The promises and pledges of the husband to his wife”
He pledged to her weights of silver and grain as a dowry for the bride, and he pledged to her an amount of oil for his wife every month, a measure of wheat every morning, a monthly salary for managing the house, and a salary for her adornment every year. A big wedding ceremony is held so that the couple receives the blessing of relatives and gifts, and so the bride moves to her husband’s house, which contains his family, to become the lady of the house.
The girl was usually not married to anyone other than her sex. An example of this is found in the Amarna letters, where Amenhotep III refused the request of the Babylonian king (Kadshman Enlil I) to marry him to an Egyptian princess and told him that a princess had never been sent to anyone.
“polygamy”
Polygamy was not limited to kings, but according to a person’s ability and wealth, which was prevalent in the royal palace; for example, Ramses II had seven basic wives, the most famous of whom was Nefertari.
But when the common people were satisfied with one wife, as required by the example of marriage (Isis and Osiris), and this was referred to by Diodorus Sicilian to polygamy among the Egyptians by saying:-
The priest in Egypt takes one husband, but the rest of the men take from the wives what they desire.
This is a picture of a man and his two wives from the 18th family in the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands.