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

Contributor(s): Nosch, Marie-Louise [editor.] | Koefoed, H [editor.] | Strand, Eva B. Andersson [editor.] | Nosch, Marie-Louise [editor.] | Koefoed, H [editor.] | Strand, Eva B. Andersson [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient textiles series ; v. 12.Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: [1st edition]Description: viii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781842174890; 1842174894Subject(s): Textile industry -- Middle East -- History | Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Middle East | Copper age -- Middle East | Bronze age -- Middle East | Iron age -- Middle East | Bronze age | Copper age | Iron age | Textile fabrics, Ancient | Textile industry | Middle EastGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 338.4/76770956 LOC classification: TS1413.5 | .T48 2013
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.
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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.