WOOL ECONOMY
IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
AND THE AEGEAN
From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry
to Institutional Textile Industry
edited by
Catherine Breniquet and Cécile Michel
OXBOW BOOKS
Oxford & Philadelphia
Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. v
Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean .......................................................... 1
Catherine Breniquet and Cécile Michel
1 Bronze and Iron Age Wools in Europe ......................................................................................... 12
Antoinette Rast-Eicher
2 The Expansion of Sheep Herding and the Development of Wool Production
in the Ancient Near East: An Archaeozoological and Iconographical Approach .................. 22
Emmanuelle Vila and Daniel Helmer
3 Sheep, Wool and Textile Production. An Interdisciplinary Approach
to the Complexity of Wool Working ............................................................................................. 41
Eva Andersson Strand
4 The Archaeology of Wool in Early Mesopotamia: Sources, Methods, Perspectives ............. 52
Catherine Breniquet
5 Lambs of the Gods. The Beginnings of the Wool Economy in Proto-Cuneiform Texts ....... 79
Petr Charvát
6 The Value of Wool in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia. On the Control of Sheep
and the Handling of Wool in the Presargonic to the Ur III Periods (c. 2400 to 2000 BC) ... 94
Walther Sallaberger
7 Wool in the Economy of Sargonic Mesopotamia ...................................................................... 115
Benjamin R. Foster
8 From Weighing Wool to Weaving Tools. Textile Manufacture at Ebla
during the Early Syrian Period in the Light of Archaeological Evidence ............................ 124
Luca Peyronel
9 Some Aspects of the Wool Economy at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BC) ................................. 139
Maria Giovanna Biga
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10 Making Textiles at Arslantepe, Turkey, in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC.
Archaeological Data and Experimental Archaeology ............................................................... 151
Romina Laurito, Cristina Lemorini and Assunta Perilli
11 Wool Economy in the Royal Archive of Mari during the Šakkanakku Period ..................... 169
Laurent Colonna d’Istria
12 All Wool and a Yard Wide. Wool Production and Trade in Old Babylonian Sippar ............ 202
Katrien De Graef
13 Wool Trade in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria According to Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Texts .................................................................................................................. 232
Cécile Michel
14 Wool in Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period ............................................................................ 255
Agnete Wisti Lassen
15 Wool Economy in Minoan Crete before Linear B. A Minimalist Position ............................ 264
Pietro Militello
16 Wool in the Nuzi Texts ...................................................................................................... 283
Philippe Abrahami
17 Wool Production and Economy at Ugarit .................................................................................. 310
Valérie Matoïan and Juan-Pablo Vita, with a contribution by Étienne Bordreuil
18 Sheep Rearing, Wool Production and Management in Mycenaean
Written Documents ........................................................................................................................ 340
Françoise Rougemont
19 Mycenaean Wool Economies in the Latter Part of the 2nd Millennium BC Aegean .......... 371
Marie-Louise Nosch
20 Wool, Hair and Textiles in Assyria .............................................................................................. 401
Nicholas Postgate
21 “If you have a sheep, you have all you need”. Sheep Husbandry and Wool in the Economy of the Neo-Babylonian Ebabbar Temple at Sippar ...................................... 428
Stefan Zawadzki
22 Fabrics and Clothes from Mesopotamia during the Achaemenidand Seleucid Periods: The Textual References .......................................................................... 453
Francis Joannès
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