TY - BOOK AU - Nosch,Marie-Louise AU - Koefoed,H. AU - Strand,Eva B.Andersson AU - Nosch,Marie-Louise AU - Koefoed,H. AU - Strand,Eva B.Andersson TI - Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East: archaeology, epigraphy, iconography T2 - Ancient textiles series SN - 9781842174890 AV - TS1413.5 .T48 2013 U1 - 338.4/76770956 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Oxford PB - Oxbow Books KW - Textile industry KW - Middle East KW - History KW - Textile fabrics, Ancient KW - Copper age KW - Bronze age KW - Iron age N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-247); 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 ER -