“The word “marriage” comes from the first recorded wedding at the city of MARI in Mesopotamia on a clay cuneiform tablet.”
Ah, I don’t think so. The word “marriage” is traceable to vulgar Latin from French, that is to say, it is of medieval origin. Mari, as a city, disappeared from history in the late Bronze Age, never to be heard of again until its discovery and subsequent excavation by the French in 1933. Besides which, marriages had been taking place much before that in places other than Mari, many of which, for example, throughout all of Babylonia and Assyria, shared the same language with Mari, and also the Sumerian civilization which preceded those cultures in the same region. So, no. That is a false etymology.
Sorry but learned “first marriage at MARI” from an archaeologist at the university years ago. I can read cuneiform. Hebrew, greek, latin etc.
0 viz “The letters between Zimri-Lim, King of Mari, and his wife Shiptu, are especially touching in that it is clear how much they cared for, trusted, and relied on each other.”
One should read the MARI clay tablets before pontificating. oops forgot you can`t read cuneiform?/ sorry - the tablets are in the British archive drawers and also at Oxford, other places for studying.