Will, an example of a, 32; an heiress, 34; the document of Sennacherib, 35; disputes, 42 Wine, manufacture of, 139, 140; letters relating to, 221 Women: family, legal and religious status in Babylonia, 14 ff.; in Assyria, 18; in Canaan, 19; divorce, 20; dowries, 20; traders, 24; a superior slave, _ibid._; concubines, 26; testatory rights, 29; legal forms of matrimony, 29; prostitutes, 30; adoption, 37; dress, 102; as trade partners, 128 Wool, manufacture of, 107 ff.; looms, 108 Writing materials, 50, 51. _See also_ “Letter-writing” Yahveh, name known in Babylonia, 227 FOOTNOTES 1 Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea (1838), p. 131 _sqq._ 2 In certain cases the wife seems to have had the power of claiming alimony from her husband, though we do not know what were the circumstances which were held sufficient to justify the claim. Thus, in the third year of Nabonidos, “Nahid-Merodach, the son of Samas-baladhu-iqbi, voluntarily granted his wife Ramûa and his son Arad-Bunene four _qas_ of food and three _qas_ of beer daily, as well as fifteen manehs of wool, one _pi_ of sesame, one _pi_ of salt, and sixty _qas_ of sweetmeats each year,” with the provision that the grant should never be cancelled or willed away. The son, however, is included in the gift, and it is possible, therefore, that Ramûa was little more than a concubine. 3 A similar case, in which, however, it is a testatrix who hands over her property to her son during her lifetime, is recorded in a deed dated at Babylon the 10th day of Sivân, in the second year of Nabonidos. The deed is as follows: “Gugûa, the daughter of Zakir, the son of a native of Isin, has voluntarily sealed and delivered to her eldest son, Ea-zir-ibni, her dowry, consisting of one maneh which is in the keeping of Nebo-akhi-iddin, the son of Sula, the son of Egibi; 35 shekels which have been mortgaged to Tabnea, the son of Nebo-yusallim, the son of Sin-sadunu, and 20 shekels which are due from Tasmetum-ramat, the daughter of Arad-Bel, the son of Egibi, as well as a field producing 48 _qas_ of seed on the canal of Kish. As regards the maneh and 56 shekels belonging to Gugûa, which, in the absence of her eldest son, Ea-zir-ibni, she has divided between her younger sons, Nebo-akhi-bullidh, Nergal-ina-esi-edher, Itti-Samas-baladhu, and Ninip-pir-_utsur_, Ea-zir-ibni shall have no claim to them. Gugûa has delivered to Ea-zir-ibni, her eldest son, one maneh, now in the hands of Nebo-akhi-iddin, 55 shekels in the hands of Tabnea, 50 shekels in the hands of Tasmetum-ramat, and a field bearing 48 _qas_ of seed. As long as Gugûa lives, Ea-zir-ibni shall give his mother Gugûa, as interest upon the property, food and clothing.