Rhys and Brynmor-Jones, op. cit., p. 214.
Crawley (The Mystic Rose, p. 41 et seq.) gives numerous instances.
Revillout, "La Femme dans l'Antiquité," Journal Asiatique, 1906, vol. vii, p. 57. See, also, Victor Marx, Beiträge zur Assyriologie, 1899, Bd. iv, Heft 1.
Donaldson, Woman, pp. 196, 241 et seq. Nietzold, (Die Ehe in "Agypten," p. 17), thinks the statement of Diodorus that no children were illegitimate, needs qualification, but that certainly the illegitimate child in Egypt was at no social disadvantage.