Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC
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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements and research frameworks for the investigation of textile terminologiesin the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC
- Textile Terminologies
- 1 Synonymic Variation in the Field of Textile Terminology: A study in diachronyand synchrony
- 2 The Basics of Textile Tools and Textile Technology: From fi bre to fabric
- 3 Textile Terminologies and Classifi cations: Some methodological and chronological aspects
- 4 Weaving in Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age: Archaeology, techniques, iconography
- 5 Cloths – Garments – and Keeping Secrets. Textile classifi cation and cognitive chainingin 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 Considerationson Linear A Logograms and Abbreviations
- 18 Mycenaean Textile Terminology at Work: The KN Lc(1)-tablets and the occupationalnouns 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