Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East : archaeology, epigraphy, iconography / edited by M.-L. Nosch, H. Koefoed and E. Andersson Strand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nosch, Marie-Louise, editor.

Koefoed, H., editor.

Strand, Eva B. Andersson, editor.

Series:

Ancient textiles series ; v. 12.

Ancient textiles series ; vol. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Middle East--History.

Textile industry.

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Middle East.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Copper age--Middle East.

Copper age.

Bronze age--Middle East.

Bronze age.

Iron age.

History.

Middle East.

Iron age--Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First [edition].

Place of Publication:

Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2013]

Summary:

Textile production played a key role in ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, lines of production and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen chapters in the present volume describe the developments from production within the household to standardised, industrialised, and centralised production which took place in the region from the 5th millennium BCE onwards. They discuss the economic, social, and cultural impact of textiles on ancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studies, and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. The chapters show how textile industries, production, technology, consumption and innovation were crucial to these societies, and therefore provide an in-depth insight into ancient societies during this period. Geographically, the contributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland and Sumer. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / by Henriette Koefoed, Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise Nosch

Functions and uses of textiles in the ancient Near East: summary and perspectives / by Catherine Breniquet

The emergence of the Ghassulian textile industry in the southern Levant Chalcolithic period (c. 4500-3900 BCE ) / by Janet Levy and Isaac Gilead

Textile production in palatial and non-palatial contexts: the case of Tel Kabri / by Nurith Goshen, Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline

Textiles, value, and the early economies of north Syria and Anatolia / by David R.A. Lumb

Technology and palace economy in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia: the case of the crescent shaped loom weight / by Agnete Wisti Lassen

Her share of the profits: women, agency, and textile production at Kültepe/Kanesh in the early second millennium BC / by Allison Karmel Thomason

Visualising ancient textiles: how to make a textile visible on the basis of an interpretation of an Ur II text / by Eva Andersson Strand and Maria Cybulska

The costumes of Inanna/Ishtar -/ by Bernice Jones

Considering the finishing of textiles based on neo-Sumerian inscriptions from Girsu / by Richard Firth

Tapestries in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the ancient Near East / by Joanna S. Smith

Spinning from old threads: the whorls from Ugarit / by Caroline Sauvage

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: innovations in Mediterranean textile production at the end of the 2nd/beginning of the 1st millennium BCE / by Laura B. Mazow

Textile production and consumption in the neo-Assyrian empire / by Salvatore Gaspa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

ISBN:

1842174894

9781842174890

OCLC:

816498994

Publisher Number:

99959789473