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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia
. Ed(S): Michel, Cecile; Nosch, Marie-Louise
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Michel, Cecile; Nosch, Marie-Louise. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1300.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782973911
SKU
V9781782973911
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About . Ed(S): Michel, Cecile; Nosch, Marie-Louise
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia
'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 ... Read more
Journal of the American Oriental Society Journal of the American Oriental Society 'this is an impressively edited and beautifully finished volume ... Read more