Daily Life – Domestic Life

Andon Swartz

• Marriage

1. Men married someone within social class/ extended family
2. No formal/legal ceremony for marriage
3. People were officially married when they set up a household together
4. A divorce was when the couple had been living separately
5. All divorced couples could re-marry again

• Egyptian Society

1. A women’s social position is based on their husband’s/father’s job
2. The upper class women that were married to the nobility and government officials had to raise children, run the household, and observe the servants
3. Other women that were not married to those people had to raise children as well but also had to cook, clean, make clothes for the family, and work into the fields with their husbands

• Individual Rights

1. Women could own their own land and were entitled to share equally any inheritance left by a family member
2. Women were equal to men in eye of the law
3. They could bring charges against someone in court but had to be responsible for their own actions and go answer them in court

• Children
  1. Most children often married around 12-14 years old
  2. The kids played games such as leapfrog, tug-of-war, and a board game called senet
  3. They also played with balls, dolls, and animals
  4. Boys pretended to be soldiers and the girls pretended that their dolls were dancers.
  5. Citations:

9/16/15 http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/priests_of_amen.htm Reshafim Company-9/16/15.Web

9/16/15 http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/games.htm Reshafim Company-9/15/15.Web

9/14/15 Anne Wallace Sharp-Women of Ancient Egypt-Thomson Gale-2005-Print