The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

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CHAPTER NINE CLOTH IN THE BABYLONIAN WORLD  Irene Good B abylonia bore the signature of Sumerian culture during the reign of ...

communication in material culture. Observing these processes archaeologically offers us important understanding of ancient socie ...

of the different socio-economic worlds of pastoralists and agriculturists. In the tale, the Queen of Heaven, Inanna, is courted ...

— Irene Good — Figure 9. 2 Scene from a wall painting found at the palace of Mari, showing multi-colored wrap garments (after A. ...

woody/herbaceous plant. Many plants have basts, but only a few have the desirable characteristics of sheen, strength, structural ...

Special note on silk Textual evidence for silk in ancient Mesopotamia is tantalizing. There is reference to what has been transl ...

We know that the upright loom was also used in parts of the Near East in the second millennium BC: it was used in Egypt as early ...

— Irene Good — Figure 9. 3 Relief sculpture from Khorsabad showing fringed skirt (courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum ...

— Cloth in the Babylonian World — Figure 9. 5 Assyrian palace relief sculpture of a threshold with fringe outer border, from Kho ...

can be found in the neo-Assyrian palaces of Khorsabad and Nineveh where stone relief sculpture, as examined in detail by several ...

TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN MESOPOTAMIA – MODES AND INSTITUTIONS Much of what we know of Babylonian textile production is gained from ...

a category for cloth to be used as wrapping for the transport of other goods (Veenhof 1972 ). CONCLUSION Future archaeological i ...

NOTES 1 The latter evidenced at Ugarit by characteristically crushed shell; seen also at the port Minet al Beida c. 1500 – 1300 ...

Oppenheim, A.L. 1949. “The Golden Garments of the Gods,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8 : 172 – 193. –––– 1969. Essay on Over ...

CHAPTER TEN THE BABYLONIAN VISUAL IMAGE  Zainab Bahrani THE BABYLONIAN IMAGE W hen Ashurbanipal had a stele made for the sacr ...

— Zainab Bahrani — Figure 10. 1 Stele of Ashurbanipal, 668 – 652 BC. Sandstone, height 37 cm (courtesy of the Trustees of the Br ...

over the lower part of the body of the king. Therefore, we can say that the object itself is something of a hybrid between a wri ...