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Mothers played an important role in ancient Egyptian society and were expected to be respected and cared for by their children. Texts from 1500 BC emphasize the sacrifices mothers make, such as nursing children for three years and caring for them daily. Children were expected to honor their mothers and support them in old age, as evidenced by a woman who disinherited children who did not take care of her. Proper burial and care of parents was important to inherit their property.
Mothers played an important role in ancient Egyptian society and were expected to be respected and cared for by their children. Texts from 1500 BC emphasize the sacrifices mothers make, such as nursing children for three years and caring for them daily. Children were expected to honor their mothers and support them in old age, as evidenced by a woman who disinherited children who did not take care of her. Proper burial and care of parents was important to inherit their property.
Mothers played an important role in ancient Egyptian society and were expected to be respected and cared for by their children. Texts from 1500 BC emphasize the sacrifices mothers make, such as nursing children for three years and caring for them daily. Children were expected to honor their mothers and support them in old age, as evidenced by a woman who disinherited children who did not take care of her. Proper burial and care of parents was important to inherit their property.
Ideally the ancient Egyptians expected marriage to be monogamous and lifelong, and produce children who would care for them when they were old, and inherit their property. Mothers in ancient Egypt, just as in other cultures, were recognized for the sacrifices they made for their offspring. Numerous literary texts from ancient Egypt specifically mention the high regard in which mothers should be held. Women who had given birth and nurtured their children were seen as individuals who should be respected and cared for. In particular, sons seem to have been expected to love and honor their mothers. The Instructions of Any, a didactic text composed in the early New Kingdom around 1500 BC, admonishes a young man to support his mother with double the food she had given him, because, “she had a heavy load in you, but she did not abandon you”. The text goes on in more detail: When you were born after your months, she was yet yoked to you. Her breast in your mouth for three years, as you grew and your excrement disgusted, but she was not disgusted, saying: “What shall I do?” When she sent you to school, and you were taught to write, she kept watch over you daily. There is also some evidence that children had to care for their parents, or else they would not inherit from them. An elderly woman named Naunakhte, who lived in the New Kingdom village of Deir el-Medineh on the Theban west bank, disinherits three of her eight children because they are not bothering to take care of her. She carefully states in her will that although they may inherit property that comes from their father, they may not inherit any of her own property. A document from the same village describes a situation in which only one sibling took care of the burial of his parents, and therefore the inheritance belonged only to him.
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