Ray Erwin Baber; Marriage and Family Life in Ancient Egypt, Social Forces, Volume 13, Issue 3, 1 March 1935, Pages 409–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570405 Marriage in ancient Egypt was very different than we have today. Certainly Egyptians seem to have taken mates in what most often appears to be lifelong monogamous relationships. Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra : History and Society under the Ptolemies. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY CUSTOMS IN ANCIENT EGYPT 107 adoption of incest by the Greek Ptole-mies and, later, by their subjects. The marriage is signed and registered by a Maazoon—a kind of marriage registrar. The ancient Egyptian royal families were almost expected to marry within the family as inbreeding was present in virtually every dynasty. 638–647. There was no formal marriage, the parents simply agreed that their children should be together and so the two children ‘start a new house’ together. The founding and continuation of a family line was important in ancient Egyptian society and early marriage was encouraged. Girls would marry at the age of 12 and boys from about the age of 14. It is proper to create people. 303, no. "Take a wife while you are young, that she may make a son for you.She should bear for you while you are youthful. They also married young, with men often marrying by the age of 17 and women by the age of 14, according to Zahi Hawas in his book, “Family in the Period of Ancient Egyptians.” Having a home, a well-respected job, and agreement between the couple were the main conditions for any marriage in Ancient Egyptian society, as is the case nowadays. “Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family.” JAMA, vol. The Ptole- But it is not certain that the Persians had incestuous marriages.85 At any rate, we do know that, al-though the Greeks disapproved of incest,86 most of Egypt's Macedonian kings married their sisters. BBC Teach > Primary resources > KS2 History > Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings. In modern day Egypt cousin marriage is not a problem under the influence of Islam. Pharaohs were not only wed to their brothers and sisters, but there were also "double-niece" marriages, where a man married a girl whose parents were his own brother and sister. The aim of this essay is to high-light the reasons why such marriages occurred and also, provide evidence of such marriages by means of papyri letters, contracts and … Girls of higher ranking family had the choice to marry when they were older, but these marriages were usually arranged by the parents of the boy and girl. Although inter-family marriages are not common today, they were certainly practised during Graeco-Roman Egypt. From the paintings we have found, letters that were left from grieved widowers to their deceased mates, and from statues from all periods of ancient Egyptian history, we see that marriage and a close family played an integral role in ancient Egypt. For peasant girls, they married at around 12 years old and the boys were just a bit older than the girls when they got married. Family life was important to Egyptians. Cornell University Press, 2000. History KS2: Marriage and family in Ancient Egypt. The marriage takes place in the bride’s house or in a mosque. Happy he man whose people are many, he is saluted on account of his offspring" Frandsen, Paul John,MmNm. 7, 2010, pp. But that doesnt mean that marriage was not taken seriously. Parents arranged their children’s marriages. Hawass, Zahi, et al. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. 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