E-book
Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East : archaeology, epigraphy, iconography
Record details
- ISBN: 9781782971115 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1782971114 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781842174890
- ISBN: 1842174894
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) - Edition: 1st [edition].
- Publisher: Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2013]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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