Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean textiles and dress

an interdisciplinary anthology

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean ...
Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel, Ma ...
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
December 21, 2022 | History

Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean textiles and dress

an interdisciplinary anthology

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Textile terms testify to intensive exchanges between Semitic and Indo-European languages, especially within the terminology of trade goods. The production and consumption of textiles and garments are demonstrated in 2nd millennium Hittite Anatolia; from 1st millennium BC Assyria, a cross-disciplinary approach combines texts, realia and iconography to produce a systematic study of golden dress decorations; and finally, the important discussion of fibres, flax and wool, in written and archaeological sources is evidence for delineating the economy of linen and the strong symbolic value of fibre types in 1st millennium Babylonia and the Southern Levant. The volume is part of a pair together with Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology edited by Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
308

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean textiles and dress
Cover of: Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
2014, Oxbow Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
2014, Oxbow Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
2014, Oxbow Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
Prehistoric, Ancient near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress
2014, Oxbow Books, Limited
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

Investigating Neolithic and Copper Age textile production in Transylvania (Romania) : applied methods and results / Paula Mazare
Spindle whorls from two prehistoric settlements on Thassos, north Aegean / Sophia Vakirtzi, Chaido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki and Stratis Papadopoulos
Textiles texts of the Lagash II period / Richard Firth
Searching for lost costumes : a few remarks about the royal costume in ancient Mesopotamia focusing on the Amorite kingdom of Mari / Ariane Thomas
Elements for a comparative study of textile production and consumption in the Hittite Anatolia and its neighbours / Matteo Vigo, Giulia Baccelli and Benedetta Bellucci
Buttons, pins, clips and belts : inconspicuous dress accessories from the burial context of the Mycenaean period (16th-12th cent. BC) / Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi
Textile semitic loanwords in Mycenaean as Wanderwörter / Valentina Gasbarra
Constructing masculinities through textile production in the ancient Near East / Agnès Garcia-Ventura
Spindles and distaffs : late Bronze and early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean use of solid and tapered ivory/bone shafts / Caroline Sauvage
Golden decorations in Assyrian textiles : an interdisciplinary approach / Salvatore Gaspa
Erita's dress : contribution to the study of the Mycenaean priestesses' attire / Tina Boloti
Flax and linen in the first millennium Babylonia BCE : origins, craft industry and uses of a remarkable textile / Louise Quillien
Special traditions in Jewish garments and the rarity of mixing wool and linen threads in the same textile in the Jewish tradition / Orit Shamir.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Series
Ancient textiles series -- Vol. 18, Ancient textiles series -- v. 18.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
746.093
Library of Congress
NK8907 .P74 2014, NK8907, GT1380

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 308 pages
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27187183M
ISBN 10
1782977198
ISBN 13
9781782977193
LCCN
2014039323, 2015000893
OCLC/WorldCat
899880172

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 21, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
October 5, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
November 13, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
September 21, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
July 19, 2019 Created by MARC Bot Imported from marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record