The Ancient Greek Economy. Markets, Households and City-States
166 7 WHOLE CLOTH Exploring the Question of Self-Sufficiency through the Evidence for Textile Manufacture and Purchase in Greek ...
WHOLE CLOTH 167 Athens, whether that evidence was recovered from domestic settings or from ergasteria. Reuthner’s omission provi ...
168 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS although some weights were unintentionally preserved when they were baked hard in the conflagration that d ...
WHOLE CLOTH 169 choice, as it was less subject to breakage. Spinning linen thread took longer than spinning wool, since the stal ...
170 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS kept close at hand. In his examination of the remains of the nearly undisturbed domestic assemblages excav ...
WHOLE CLOTH 171 horrific odor produced when it was heated to extract the dye-secreting gland. Other plant and earth-derived dyes ...
172 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS The present chapter is a work in progress, as some of the material I had hoped to present is, as yet, unav ...
WHOLE CLOTH 173 house (Tsakirgis 2005 : 76). The brazier could have been used to heat water for dyeing, but it equally might hav ...
174 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS Hellenistic periods (Davidson 1952 : 146–56). The nine weights from Athens are made of a clay paler than ...
WHOLE CLOTH 175 by Harris (2002a) in his study of the epigraphical and textual evidence for occupations in Classical Athens. Mor ...
176 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS Confirmation of the industrial activity in Building Z may come from the several pyres recovered from under ...
WHOLE CLOTH 177 373 weights were found, or an average of just over thirty-seven per house, although this simple division does no ...
178 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS Immediately we should ask the question, where did the sixty-seven other households obtain their clothing a ...
WHOLE CLOTH 179 the houses on Delos were not catalogued. Two loom weights appear in the publications of the peristyle houses at ...
180 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS The configuration of the find spots indicates that the weights had fallen from a loom erected in the build ...
WHOLE CLOTH 181 wore sleeved garments that, if not imported with the slaves themselves, might have been created in the home; the ...
182 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS some inscriptions (e.g., IG ii^2 1570 lines 24–6) also attest that linen was bought at market. Let us reca ...
WHOLE CLOTH 183 family needs funds in the future. Textiles are not food, and while they cannot sustain life as wheat, olives, or ...
184 BARBARA TSAKIRgIS Female agency in weaving should not be discounted. Foxhall and Stears ( 2000 ) have argued that women owne ...
WHOLE CLOTH 185 located largely outside the home, suggest that advances in textile technol- ogy saw the industrialization of tex ...
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