Ancient Near Eastern Texts related to Love, Marriage, and Hieros Gamos

Sumerian Couple Egyptian Love Poetry Cairo Vase (two love songs from 13th–9th c., BC) Chester Beatty papyrus I (collecton of love songs from the 11th - 12th c., BC) Papyrus Harris 500 (13th c., BC: collections of love songs) Turin "love song" Papyrus (11th - 12th c., BC: trees respond to lovers) Love among the gods Love finds a way The Sated Lover The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi Inanna prepares for her wedding (Love in the Gipar) Dumuzi’s Wedding The Honey Man Inanna and the king (Blessing on the wedding night) Marriage and Divorce Contracts New Sumerian divorce settlement (21st c., BC) Old Assyrian divorce document Old Assyrian marriage contract (19th c., BC) Abrogation of a marriage agreement (15th c., BC) Ugaritic Manumission and Marriage contract Mibtahiah’s marriage contracts (5th c., BC: Aramaic Papyrus from Elephantine) Manumission and marriage of a female slave (5th c., BC: Aramaic Papyrus from Elephantine)

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