Textile terminologies in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the third to the first millennia BC

Textile terminologies in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the third to the first millennia BC / edited by C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch.

Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence fo...

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Other Authors: Michel, Cécile (Editor), Nosch, Marie-Louise (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Company, [2010]
Series:Ancient textiles series ; 8.
Subjects:
To 1500
Textile industry > Middle East > History > To 622 > Terminology.
Textile industry > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500 > Terminology.
Bronze age > Middle East.
Bronze age > Mediterranean Region.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Textiles & Polymers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Antiquities
Bronze age
Textile industry
Middle East > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
History
Terminology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Acknowledgements and research frameworks for the investigation of textile terminologies in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC; Textile Terminologies; 1 Synonymic Variation in the Field of Textile Terminology: A study in diachrony and synchrony; 2 The Basics of Textile Tools and Textile Technology: From fibre to fabric; 3 Textile Terminologies and Classifications: Some methodological and chronological aspects; 4 Weaving in Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age: Archaeology, techniques, iconography
  • 5 Cloths
  • Garments
  • and Keeping Secrets. Textile classification and cognitive chaining in the ancient Egyptian writing system 6 The 'linen list' in Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt: Text and textile reconciled; 7 Clothing in Sargonic Mesopotamia: Visual and written evidence; 8 Textiles in the Administrative Texts of the Royal Archives of Ebla (Syria, 24th century BC)with Particular Emphasis on Coloured Textiles; 9 Les noms sémitiques des tissus dans les textes d'Ebla; 10 New Texts Regarding the Neo-Sumerian Textiles
  • 11 The Colours and Variety of Fabrics from Mesopotamia during the Ur III Period (2050 BC)12 The Textiles Traded by the Assyrians in Anatolia (19th-18th centuries BC); 13 Tools, Procedures and Professions: A review of the Akkadian textile terminology; 14 Les textiles du Moyen-Euphrate à l'époque paléo-babylonienne d'après un ouvrage récent; 15 Linen in Hittite Inventory Texts; 16 Textile Terminology in the Ugaritic Texts; 17 The Terminology of Textiles in the Linear B Tablets, including Some Considerations on Linear A Logograms and Abbreviations
  • 18 Mycenaean Textile Terminology at Work: The KN Lc(1)-tablets and the occupational nouns of the textile industry 19 Les textiles néo-assyriens et leurs couleurs; 20 Textile Terminology in the Neo-Babylonian Documentation; 21 Garments in Non-Cultic Context (Neo-Babylonian Period); 22 Some Considerations about Vedic, Avestan and Indoiranian Textile Terminology

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