Author: Giovanna De Lorenzi
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Category : Art
Languages : un
Pages : 726

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Author: Cécile Michel
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN: 9781842179758
Category : Bronze Age
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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 for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. For example, the Greek word for a long shirt, khiton , ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn . But the same root in Akkadian means linen, in Old Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhaps cotton, in many modern languages. These and numerous other instances underscore the need for detailed studies of both individual cases and the common threads that link them. This example illustrates on the one hand how connected some textiles terms are across time and space, but it also shows how very carefully we must conduct the etymological and terminological enquiry with constantly changing semantics as the common thread. The survey of textile terminologies in 22 chapters presented in this volume demonstrates the interconnections between languages and cultures via textiles.

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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782971114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region. They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles on ancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studies and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. Together they demonstrate that the textile industries, production, technology, consumption and innovations are crucial to, and therefore provide an in-depth view of ancient societies during this period. Geographically the contributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt.

Author: Sir George Collier
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Sir Charles Edward Callwell
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: John Timbs
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878281767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Arthur Griffiths
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Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: William Holden Hutton
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; New York : Macmillan
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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