Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East : archaeology, epigraphy, iconography /

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Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2013].
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Edition: [1st edition].

Series: Ancient textiles series ; 12.

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Call Number: TS1413.5 .T48 2013

Table of 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.