Some Aspects of the Wool Economy at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BC)

Biga, Maria Giovanna

doi:10.2307/j.ctvh1djjn.13

Cited by 6 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Although there is relatively little textual evidence for longdistance trade in the earliest proto-cuneiform records (ca. 3300 Bce), the culture of calculation and oversight that came into existence more than five millennia ago was continually enriched and expanded, so that by the mid-third millennium Bce, in places like Early Dynastic Girsu, in southern Mesopotamia, or Ebla in present-day Syria, thousands of records, documenting the movement of metals and textiles, allow us to quantify trade in a way that is extremely difficult in most other times and places in antiquity (Maekawa 1980;Biga 2010;Biga 2014;Sallaberger 2014;Archi 2017). In the Ur III period institutional oversight reaches its peak: all manner of materials and labor were quantified in terms of their silver equivalencies, and this nearly universal commensurability is best seen in the accounts of institutional trading agents, responsible for exchanging domestic surpluses for exotic materials and products on behalf of the major institutions (Englund 1991;Englund 1992;Englund 2012).…”

Section: Cale Johnsonmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Cultural History Of Chemistry

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

FIGURES 1.1 Ceiling of the pronaos of the temple of Dendara. Thirty-six decans made of both precious metals and minerals. © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.2 Crypt South no. 1. Temple of Dendara. Statue of the god Harsomtus as a serpent. Caption indicating the size and the nature of the metals and minerals used (Dendara V: 140, 7). © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.3 Names of the temple of Dendara dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Temple of Dendara, northern passage of the hypostyle hall, Ptolemaic period. © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.4 One of the names of the temple of Dendara dedicated to the goddess Hathor: "Mansion-of-Electrum" (Per-en-Djam). © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.5 Cuneiform tablet BM 120960, Middle Babylonian, Tell Umar. © The Trustees of the British Museum 1.6 Late Uruk cylinder seal, 4000-3100 Bce. Photograph by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images 2.1 Flared cylindrical perfume pots set with a palm leaf. Old Kingdom. Cairo Museum. © Sydney H. Aufrère 2.2 Three foundation tablets from Khorsabad, Assyrian from the reign of Sargon II (721-705 Bce; gold, silver, and copper). © Bridgeman Images 2.3 Vials of kermes and Rubia tinctorum. Photograph © Nicole Reifarth LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 2.4 Archaeological remains of dye in Qatna. Photograph © Nicole Reifarth 2.5 Fluted glass bottle. © The Trustees of the British Museum 3.1 Procession of metals and mineral bearers. Treasure D'. Dendara temple. © Sydney H. Aufrère 3.2 Tinctorium (dyeing workshop), South-East Dendara temple. © Sydney H. Aufrère 3.3 The proto-cuneiform signs representing ovens and kilns: MAH a , AD a , and SIMUG. Drawing by the author, after signs drawn by R.K. EnglundA Cultural History of Chemistry examines the history of chemistry and its wider contexts from antiquity to the present. The series consists of six chronologically defined volumes, each volume comprising nine essays; these fifty-four contributions were written and/or edited by a total of fifty scholars, of ten different nationalities. Of Bloomsbury's many six-volume Cultural Histories currently in print, this is the first in the physical or natural sciences; it is also the first multivolume history of chemistry to appear since James Riddick Partington's four-volume History of Chemistry, concluded more than fifty years ago. It is distinguished, among other qualities, by its endeavor to take the subject from antiquity right to the present day. This is not a conventional history of chemistry, but a first attempt at creating a cultural history of the science. All cultures, including the various branches of natural science, consist of mixed constructs of social, intellectual, and material elements; however, the cultural-historical study of chemistry is still in an early stage of development. We hope that the accounts presented in these volumes will prove useful for students and scholars interested in the subject, and a starting point for those who are striving to create a more fully developed cultural history of chemistry.Each volume has the same structure: starting with an interpretive...

show abstract

Section: Cale Johnsonmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Cultural History Of Chemistry

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

Sabatini

Bergerbrant

Brandt

et al. 2019

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on wool and woollen textile production in continental Europe during the Bronze Age. Concentrations of large numbers of textile tools, and of zooarchaeological evidence suggesting intense sheepherding, hint at specialized centres of wool production during the Bronze Age. The aim of this paper is to discuss whether engagement with this economic activity was facilitated by the introduction of new foreign sheep types, possibly from the Eastern Mediterranean, where well-established wool economies existed, or by using local sheep, or a mixture of local and non-local types. A small-scale genetic pilot study, presented in this paper, primarily aimed at testing the DNA preservation, and thus the genomic potential in Bronze Age sheep remains provides evidence of both mitochondrial haplogroups A and B among Bronze Age sheep in Hungary. This result could hint at sheep herds with mixed origin but further in-depth studies are necessary to address this. We aim to promote scholarly interest in the issue and propose new directions for research on this topic.

show abstract

Textile Production and Specialisation in Bronze Age Europe

Sabatini¹,

Bergerbrant²

2019

The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Some Aspects of the Wool Economy at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BC)

Cited by 6 publications

References 0 publications

A Cultural History Of Chemistry

A Cultural History Of Chemistry

Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

Textile Production and Specialisation in Bronze Age Europe

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About