Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean

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.

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean
by Catherine Breniquet and Cécile Michel

1 Bronze and Iron Age Wools from Europe
by 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
by Emmanuelle Vila and Daniel Helmer

3 Sheep, Wool and Textile Production, an Interdisciplinary Approach on the Complexity of Wool Working
by Eva Andersson Strand

4 The Archaeology of Wool in Early Mesopotamia: Sources, Methods, Perspectives
by Catherine Breniquet

5 Lambs of the Gods. The Beginnings of the Wool Economy in Proto-Cuneiform Texts
by Petr Charvat

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)
by Walther Sallaberger

7 Wool in the Economy of Sargonic Mesopotamia
by Benjamin Foster

8 From Weighing Wool to Weaving Tools. Textile Manufacture at Ebla during the Early Syrian Period in the Light of Archeaological Evidence
by Luca Peyronel

9 Rations of Wool at Ebla (Syria, XXIVth cent. BCE)
by Maria Giovanna Biga

10 Making Textiles at Arslantepe, Turkey, in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC. Archaeological Data and Experimental Archaeology
by Romina Laurito, Cristina Lemorini and Assunta Perilli

11 Wool Economy in the Royal Archive of Mari during theŠakkanakku Period
by Laurent Colonna d’Istria

12 All Wool and a Yard Wide. Wool Production and Trade in the Old Babylonian Sippar
by Katrien de Graef

13 Wool Trade in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria According to Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Texts
by Cécile Michel

14 Wool in Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period
by Agnete Wisti Lassen

15 Wool Economy in Minoan Crete before Linear B. A Minimalist Position
by Pietro Militello

16 Wool in the Nuzi Texts
by Philippe Abrahami

17 Wool Production and Economy at Ugarit
by Valérie Matoïan and Juan-Pablo Vita, with a contribution of E. Bordreuil

18 Sheep Rearing, Wool Production and Management in Mycenaean Written Documents
by Françoise Rougemont

19 Wool Economy in Greece, end of IInd millennium and Ist millennium BC
by Marie-Louise Nosch

20 Wool, Hair and Textiles in Assyria
by 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
by Stefan Zawadzki

22 Fabrics and Clothes from Mesopotamia during the Achaemenid and Seleucid Periods: the Textual References
by Francis Joannès