In the past,legal historians and Assyriologists studied on the marital customs in the Old Babylonian period basing respectively on the concerned clauses of Hammurabi Laws and marital documents,but their methods and conclusions are open to question.

• 长期以来 ,法制史家和亚述学家分别依据《汉穆拉比法典》有关婚姻的条款和古巴比伦时期有关婚姻的文献来研究古巴比伦时期的婚姻习俗 ,然而 ,他们的研究方法以及某些结论值得商榷。