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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The Dowries of the Women of the Itti-Marduk-Balāṭu Family
Beteiligte:
Roth, Martha T.
Erschienen:
American Oriental Society, 1991
Erschienen in:Journal of the American Oriental Society
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0003-0279
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Beschreibung:
<p> This study examines the dowries (nudunnû) of nine women in three generations who married into or out of the prominent Itti-Marduk-balāṭu branch of the Egibi family. The documentation records the stages of promise and delivery and the use during marriage of the individual dowries. The mechanisms of transfer and the details of composition of the marriage prestations suggest deliberate strategies pursued by the family. In each generation, the family acquired more wealth (real estate, silver, slaves, household goods) in the dowries of its daughters-in-law than it expended on those of its daughters. The imbalance in material wealth may be compensated in part by such unrecoverable factors as social prestige and the long-range economic advantages of association with the family. </p>