Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC

Cécile Michel is Director of Research at the CNRS. She specialises in the study of cuneiform tablets, and trade and society in Upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Marie-Louise Nosch is Research Professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen and former Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. She has published widely on the cross-cultural study of textiles from across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, and is editor of many titles in Oxbow Book’s Ancient Textiles series.

'This brilliant volume offers a compilation of twenty two papers that result from an exciting collaboration between the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research and a project of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.' -- Journal of the American Oriental Society Journal of the American Oriental Society 'this is an impressively edited and beautifully finished volume which will be an obligatory reference work for future authors studying textiles in Ancient Near East and the eastern Mediterranean area.' -- Aula Orientalis Aula Orientalis ...bildet dieser Band einen zentralen Beitrag fur die Erforschung der antiken Textilwirtschaft abseits der Archaologie, bietet er doch eine profunde Zusammenschau des Kenntnisstandes zu einzelnen Regionen bzw. Sprachraumen wahrend der Bronze- und Eisenzeit, die wertvolle Anregungen auch fur Historiker und Philologen spaterer Epochen geben kann, Stoffe und Gewander in ihre For-schungen einzubeziehen. -- Marburger Beitrage Zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- Und Sozialgeschichte Marburger Beitrage Zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- Und Sozialgeschichte I found the book incredibly stimulating, and a worthy addition to the terminologist's bookshelf. -- LSP Journal of Copenhagen Business School LSP Journal of Copenhagen Business School This volume will be a valuable resource for specialists working in the field, and will also be useful for non-specialist readers with an interest in textile studies or in ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern economy and society. -- Ancient West & East Ancient West & East

• 1. Synonymic variation in the field of textile terminology: A study in diachrony and synchrony (Pascaline dury and Susanne Lervad)2. The basics of textile tools and textile technology: From fibre to fabric(Eva Andersson Strand)3. Textile terminologies and classifications: Some methodological and chronological aspects (Sophie Desrosiers)4. Weaving in Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age: Archaeology, techniques, iconography (Catherine Breniquet)5. Cloths – garments – and keeping secrets. Textile classification and cognitive chaining in the ancient Egyptian writing system(Ole Herslund)6. The ‘linen list’ in Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt: Text and textile reconciled (Jana Jones)7. Clothing in Sargonic Mesopotamia: Visual and written evidence (Benjamin R. Foster)8. Textiles in the administrative texts of the royal archives of Ebla (Syria, 24th century BC) with particular emphasis on coloured textiles (Maria Giovanna Biga)9. Les noms sémitiques des tissus dans les textes d’Ebla (Jacopo Pasquali)10. New texts regarding the neo-Sumerian textiles (Franceso Pomponio)11. The colours and variety of fabrics from Mesopotamia during the Ur III period (2050 BC)(Hartmut Waetzoldt)12. The textiles traded by the Assyrians in Anatolia (19th–18th centuries BC) (Cécile Michel and Klaas R. Veenhof)13. Tools, procedures and professions: A review of the Akkadian textile terminology (Agnete Wisti Lassen)14. Les textiles du Moyen-Euphrate à l’époque paléo-babylonienne d’après un ouvrage récent (Anne-Claude Beaugeard)15. Linen in Hittite inventory texts (Matteo Vigo)16. Textile terminology in the Ugaritic texts (Juan-Pablo Vita)17. The terminology of textiles in the linear B tablets, including some considerations on linear A logograms and abbreviations (Maurizio del Freo, Marie-Louise Nosch and Françoise Rougemont)18. Mycenaean textile terminology at work: The KN Lc(1)-tablets and the occupational nouns of the textile industry (Eugenio R. Luján)19. Les textiles néo-assyriens et leurs couleurs (Pierre Villard)20. Textile terminology in the Neo-Babylonian documentation (Francis Joannès)21. Garments in non-cultic context (Neo-Babylonian period) (Stefan Zawadzki)22. Some considerations about Vedic, Avestan and Indoiranian textile terminology(Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo)