Prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern and Aegean textiles and dress : an interdisciplinary anthology / edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harlow, Mary, 1956- editor.

Michel, Cécile, editor.

Nosch, Marie-Louise, editor.

Series:

Ancient textiles series ; 18.

Ancient textiles series ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Middle East.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Aegean Sea Region.

Clothing and dress--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress--Aegean Sea Region--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Summary:

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,

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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781782977209

1782977201

9781782977223

1782977228