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Marriage
1st Demand:
Woman’s status in Mesopotamia:The
women has been well identified in all
inscriptions of Summerian, Akkadienne
(Assyrian and Babylonian) where it points
to her in four thousand B.C. by letters “MI”
which means any mature woman . The two
letters are used as female identity. Before the
The oldest inscriptions of a man and a woman in Sumerian and Akkadienne language.
It seems that it was accepted in early history
of Iraq to show in drawings the woman’s
attractive features as well as the man’s
virility and fertility. It is well indicated in the was a goddess a head of the house in the
naked drawings of Obaid period down to
four thousand B.C.
The woman was given a higher status
in Mesopotamia society. That has been
proven by inscriptions and anthropological
studies of pre writing times. In fact opposite
to what have been written by number of
researchers about all recent lingual as
well as anthropological studies has given
us a clear and real picture which shows
that the woman through the first human
existence in the village life of Mesopotamia
name in Akkadienne was “Sinnistu/amuttu”.
However, the wife pronounced as “Dam”
and in Akkadienne “Assat” or as a picture of
female sex organ. The male in Summerian
is (IR) for male slave and (Nita) for any male
preceded by “GIS” which indicates fertility
or male organ. In Akkadienne it is “Zikru/
Zikaru”.
was much more in a higher social status.
In fact it is beyond any imagination even in
comparison to our own living time, woman
4th century BC cuneiforms. The woman is
a star inside a house in Summerian. She is
(AMA/UM/Umu) and (Ummu) in Akkadienne
language mid Third Century B.C.
From this came the name (Ummianu) which
meant scientist or educated person. Below
you can see the signs which are dedicated
for the woman keeping in mind that the star
in the Third Century BC in Sumerian meant
God.
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