[226] Hobhouse, _op. cit._, Vol. L. pp. 5-186. Herodotus (Bk. II. p. 42) states that many Egyptians, like the Greeks, had adopted monogamy. [227] Burgsch, _Hist._, Vol. I. p. 262, quoted by Simcox. [228] Simcox, Vol. I. p. 198-199. I take this opportunity of acknowledging the help I have received from this writer's careful and interesting chapter on "Domestic Relationships and Family Law" among the Egyptians. [229] Maspero, _Hist._ (German tr.), p. 41; see Simcox, _op. cit._, p. 199. [230] This tablet is in the British Museum, London. S. Egyptian Gallery, Bay 29, No. 1027. [231] Simcox, Vol. I. pp. 218, 219. [232] Petah Hotep was a high official in the reign of Assa, a king of the IVth Dynasty, about 3360 B.C. His precepts consist of aphorisms of high moral worth; there is a late copy in the British Museum. I have followed the translation given in the _Guide to the Egyptian Collection_ p. 77. [233] This passage in other translations reads: "she is a field profitable to its owner." [234] The Maxims of Ani are preserved in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. The work inculcates the highest standard of practical morality and gives a lofty ideal of the duty of the Egyptians in all the relations of life. [235] From the Boulak Papyrus (1500 B.C.). I have followed in part the translation given by Griffiths, _The World's Literature_, p. 5340, and in part that of Maspero given in _Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria_ (trans. by Alice Morton, p. 16). [236] Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 28, No. 964. This statue belongs to later Egyptian history. It was dedicated by Shashanq, a high official of the Ptolemaic period. [237] Wall case 102, Nos. 187, 38, and 430. [238] Vestibule of North Egyptian Gallery, East doorway, No. 14. [239] South Gallery, No. 565. [240] No. 375. This group belongs to the XVIIIth Dynasty: the husband was a warden of the palace and overseer of the Treasury; the wife a priestess of the god Amen. [241] Simcox, _Primitive Civilisation_, Vol. I. pp. 9, 271. [242] Hommel, _Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens_, p. 271. [243] Simcox, who quotes Hommel, _op. cit._, p. 320. [244] Simcox, Vol. I. p 361. [245] _Psychology of Sex_, Vol. VI. p. 393. Ellis quotes Revillout, "La femme dans l'antiquite," _Journal Asiatique_, 1906, Vol. VII. p. 57. [246] I quote these facts from Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, Vol. I. p. 179. [247] Hobhouse, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 181. [248] Hobhouse, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 180. [249] There is one case as late as the thirteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar in which a wife is bought for a slave for one and a half gold minas. [250] Simcox, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 374, citing _Les Obligations_, p. 346; also _Revue d'Assyriologie_. [251] This deed was translated by Dr. Peiser, _Keilinschriftliche Aktenstuecke aus babylonischen Staedte_, p. 19. [252] See Simcox, Chapters, "Commercial Law and Contract Tablets" and "Domestic Relations and Family Law," _op. cit._, Vol. I. pp. 320-379.