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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC (Paperback)
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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 8
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Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern
Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a
wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the
present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this
important material, with special attention to evidence for
significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages
and cultures, across space and time. For example, the Greek word
for a long shirt, khiton, ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic
root, ktn . But the same root in Akkadian means linen, in Old
Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhaps cotton, in many modern
languages. These and numerous other instances underscore the need
for detailed studies of both individual cases and the common
threads that link them. This example illustrates on the one hand
how connected some textiles terms are across time and space, but it
also shows how very carefully we must conduct the etymological and
terminological enquiry with constantly changing semantics as the
common thread. The survey of textile terminologies in 22 chapters
presented in this volume demonstrates the interconnections between
languages and cultures via textiles.
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