Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography

Susanna Harris is Lecturer in Archaeology at the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Harris specialises in the technical, scientific and experimental analysis of archaeological textiles and material culture. She currently leads the fibre and fabric analysis of Must Farm, Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement and is co-investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, ‘Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard’. Cecilie Brøns is a senior researcher and curator at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. She completed her PhD in Classical Archaeology in 2015 at The National Museum of Denmark and The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen. Marta Zuchowska is Lecturer in Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She completed her PhD at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Her current research focuses on textiles and their role in the economies of ancient societies. She was a member of the Polish archaeological team at Palmyra in 1995-2010.

Preface

Author biographies

1. Introduction: Approaching textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography

Cecilie Brøns, Susanna Harris, and Marta Żuchowska

2. Textile Production in Aegean Glyptic: Interpreting small-scale representations on seals and sealings from Bronze Age Greece

Agata Ulanowska

3. Textiles and Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean Scripts: tela logogram and the ligatured endogram te

Rachele Pierini

4. Loom or Lyre: A dual reading of iconography from the Iron Age II site of Kunitllet ‘Ajrud

Thaddeus Nelson

5. Abundance and Splendour: Textiles on Archaic Greek statues of young women (korai)

Susanna Harris

6. The Color of Cult: Artemis Brauronia and the krokotos

Daphne Martin

7. Furniture Textiles in Classical and Hellenistic Iconography

Demi Andrianou

8. Ideology, Gender and Textile Production: The iconography of women in the Iberian Culture

Riccardo Basso Rial

9. All that Glitters is Gold: Golden textiles in the ancient Mediterranean

Cecilie Brøns

10. Arachne Revisited: Hubris and Technology in the Forum Transitorium Frieze, Rome

Magdalena Öhrman

11. Fringed Clothing in Roman Iconography and Written Sources

Kelly Olson

12. Between Realism and Artistic Convention: Woollen mantles in the iconography of Roman Palmyra

Marta Żuchowska

13. Reading Dress and Identity in the Roman Mosaics of Carthage and Tabarka

Amy Place

14. Epilogue

Mary Harlow

Glossary

Index