"You do not take care of me!" - Abandoned women in Mesopotamian letters

731 views · Published 7 November 2018 · 51:21 · Indexed 16 October 2026

Channel: Digital Hammurabi · 2018 · Entertainment

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Wednesday lunchtime livestream! Come and hear letters from the women of the Old Assyrian period whose husbands pretty much abandoned them, moved to a different city, and married different women.

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