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The children of the legally acknowledged marriage had to be the legal children, or those who qualified as heirs, whether boys taking inheritance or girls receiving dowry.

between the woman and the spouse. The legal significance of the mother and father in establishing the foundation of the family was equal.

In the Assyrian culture, a man would typically marry after his father passed away because this is when he would traditionally get his inheritance.

The earliest age at which Assyrian women could reasonably be anticipated to survive pregnancy and childbirth was around thirteen or fourteen years old, when they were still children themselves.

Slaves were born into families because they were extended to include their offspring in perpetuity as well as themselves.

Additionally, because female slaves were considered the family's property in terms of sexual relations, many slaves were not just connected to one another but may also be half-siblings.

cousins or offspring of nuclear family members. A man's children with his slave were not part of his publicly acknowledged and legally nuclear family that is solely monogamous and, naturally, ineligible for inheritance. The kinship between the home's owners and residents The existence of slaves may help to explain why Assyrian families rarely sold their slaves unless they had very good justification.

We even saw the adoption of slave children into nuclear families in the most extreme grey regions. Nevertheless, there was a slave trade, mainly to sell prisoners of battle, and exotic foreign captives from beyond the Assyrian Empire were desired; for unidentified reasons, Anatolians were particularly sought-after.

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