Textile production and consumption in the ancient Near East : archaeology, epigraphy, iconography / edited by M.-L. Nosch, H. Koefoed and E. Andersson Strand.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Archaeology, Epigraphy, Iconography / by Henriette Koefoed, Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise Nosch -- Functions and uses of textiles in the ancient Near East : summary and perspectives / by Catherine Breniquet -- The emergence of the Ghassulian textile industry in the southern Levant Chalcolithic period (c. 4500-3900 BCE ) / by Janet Levy and Isaac Gilead -- Textile production in palatial and non-palatial contexts : the case of Tel Kabri / by Nurith Goshen, Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline -- Textiles, value, and the early economies of north Syria and Anatolia / by David R. A. Lumb -- Technology and palace economy in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia : the case of the crescent shaped loom weight / by Agnete Wisti Lassen -- Her share of the profits : women, agency, and textile production at Kultepe/Kanesh in the early second millennium BC / by Allison Karmel Thomason -- Visualising ancient textiles : how to make a textile visible on the basis of an interpretation of an Ur II text / by Eva Andersson Strand and Maria Cybulska -- The costumes of Inanna-Ishtar / by Bernice Jones -- Considering the finishing of textiles based on neo-Sumerian inscriptions from Girsu / by Richard Firth -- Tapestries in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the ancient Near East / by Joanna S. Smith -- Spinning from old threads: the whorls from Ugarit / by Caroline Sauvage -- Throwing the baby out with the bathwater : innovations in Mediterranean textile production at the end of the 2nd/beginning of the 1st millennium BCE / by Laura B. Mazow -- Textile production and consumption in the neo-Assyrian empire / by Salvatore Gaspa.