Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East :  archaeology, epigraphy, iconography / 
edited by M.-L. Nosch, H. Koefoed and E. Andersson Strand. 
 - [1st edition]. 
 - viii, 247 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  26 cm. 
 - Ancient textiles series ;  vol. 12 .
 - Ancient textiles series  v. 12. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-247). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781842174890 1842174894 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^2012039276 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016053929  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Textile industry--History.--Middle East<br/>Textile fabrics, Ancient--Middle East.<br/>Copper age--Middle East.<br/>Bronze age--Middle East<br/>Iron age--Middle East.<br/>Bronze age<br/>Copper age<br/>Iron age<br/>Textile fabrics, Ancient.<br/>Textile industry
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TS1413.5  / .T48 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.4/76770956