t
(the pupil of Revillout), _La Condition juridique de la femme dans
l'ancienne Egypte_; Nietzold, _Die Ehe in Aegypten_; Greenfel, _Greek
Papyri_; Amelineau, _La Morale Egyptienne_; Mueller, _Liebespoesie der
alten Aegypten_, and the numerous works of M. Maspero and Flinders
Petrie. Simcox, writing on "Ownership in Egypt," gives a good summary
of the subject, _Primitive Civilisations_, Vol. I. pp. 204-211; also
Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, Vol. I. p. 182, _et seq._

[205] Hobhouse regards this dowry as being the original property of
the wife in the forms of the bride-price. Revillout and Mueller accept
the much more probable view, that the dowry was fictitious, and was
really a charge on the property of the husband to be paid to the wife
if he sent her away.

[206] Paturet, _La Condition juridique de la femme dans l'ancienne
Egypte_; p. 69.

[207] Nietzold, _Die Ehe in Aegypten_, p. 79.

[208] _Etudes egyptologiques_, livre XIII. pp. 230, 294; quoted by
Simcox, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 210.

[209] Simcox, _op. cit._, Vol. I, p. 204.

[210] Simcox, _op. cit._; Vol. I. pp. 210-211, citing Revillout;
_Cours de droit_, p. 285.

[211] This is the view of Simcox, _op. cit._, pp. 210-211.

[212] Hobhouse, Vol. I. p. 185 (_Note_).

[213] _Les obligations en droit egyptien_, p. 82; quoted by Simcox,
_op. cit._, Vol. I. pp. 209-210.

[214] Diodorus, bk. i. p. 27. The whole passage is: "Contrary to the
received usage of other nations the laws permit the Egyptians to marry
their sisters, after the example of Osiris and Isis. The latter, in
fact, having cohabited with her brother Osiris, swore, after his
death, never to suffer the approach of any man, pursued the murderer,
governed according to the laws, and loaded men with benefits. All this
explains why the queen receives more power and respect than the king,
and why, among private individuals, the woman rules over the man, and
that it is stipulated between married couples by the terms of the
dowry-contract that the man shall obey the woman." The brother-sister
marriages, referred to by Diodorus, which were common, especially in
early Egyptian history, are further witness to the persistence among
them of the customs of the mother-age.

[215] Simcox, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 205.

[216] _Revue egyptologique_, I. p. 110.

[217] Revillout, _Cours de droit_, Vol. I. p. 222.

[218] _Psychology of Sex_, Vol. VI. p. 393.

[219] Amelineau, _La morale egyptienne_, p. 1