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Publishes two fine-wool textiles and a sponge from Nymphaeum (Crimea), now in Ashmolean Museum Oxford, and dating to latter half of fifth century BC
Hesperos. The Aegean seen from the West. 16th International Aegean Conference. University of Ioannina, 16-21 May 2016
Protogeometric funerary textiles from Stamna, Aitolia, GreeceAbstract This communication presents an exceptional find from Western Greece, a well-preserved collection of archaeological textiles. The textiles’ provenance is the Proto-geometric burial site (approx. 1050-900 B.C.) of Stamna in Aetolia, an extensive cemetery of more than 600 Early Iron Age burials. The site was excavated by the Greek archaeological service as a rescue excavation in 2003 under the direction of Dr. L. Kolonas. Among the numerous and important finds of the cemetery there are three bronze cauldrons covered with textiles, which are preserved by mineralization. Of the three vessels, one is entirely preserved and is positioned on a tripod, a second is preserved without the legs and from a third only textile fragments are preserved. The fabrics inside the vessels are densely packed around human bones and carbonized fruits. The textiles are partly tightly packed into the 3 vessels, and partly placed on top of them. They are in a fragile state, but still so well preserved that analyses could be carried out. A preliminary study revealed several types of weaves and a wide range of qualities, from a net-like structure of thick and coarse threads, to extremely fine fabrics of exceptionally thin threads and very high thread counts. There seem to be at least 6 types of weave: 2 coarse and 4 fine types. Some fabrics are of a very fine quality, with thread counts of up to 80/cm. Some of them are faced, some are balanced, and they all seem to be tabbies. One uncommon weave is not yet identified. All threads are z-spun. The diversity of the Stamna textiles demonstrate different items of a variety of techniques (i.e. fine clothing or coarse wrapping material), and not one single shroud. Our current analyses include C14 for specified dating, fiber analysis, and HPLC and FTIR analyses to identify dyes and fibers. One of the fine fabrics still preserves purple coloured stripes. Chemical dye analyses (HPLC) have demonstrated evidence of true murex purple which coloured the broad bands of dyed yarn. The examination by electron microscopy reveals evidence for the use of scaled keratin fibres indicating wool. High amounts of iron and minor amounts of copper and sulfur are found by SEM-EDX analysis. The threads are heavily mineralized and covered by a thick metallic layer. The Stamna textiles represent one of the largest assemblages of archaeological textiles preserved in the Aegean; it is a substantial addition to the quite meager catalogue of Early Iron Age textiles from Greece and thus a significant contribution to our understanding of the Early Iron Age textile cultures of Europe.
Early Greek garments: Indications for weaving techniques and textile ornaments on representations and evidence of contemporary textile remains, in: M. S. Busana, M. Gleba, F. Meo, A. R. Tricomi (eds.), Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. Proceedings of the V
Early Greek garments: Indications for weaving techniques and textile ornaments on representations and evidence of contemporary textile remains2018 •
One of the crucial developments in the prehistoric textile craft was the introduction of the so-called long-staple wool (or woolly wool), which obviously revolutionised textile techniques, production of cloth and consequently, it changed the economy of textiles. From the Near Eastern textual sources dated to the 3rd millennium BC (Ebla, Ur) we learn that already during this time textiles played a very important role in the palatial and non-palatial economy, while textile industry became controlled by the state. From this time on, textiles will be constantly mentioned in the administration texts and during the 2nd millennium BC they will be subjects of a long-distant trade and transactions, as it is well documented e.g. in the commercial texts between Assur and Karum Kanesh. Until now similar evidence for an industrialised use of textiles in the 3rd millennium BC is lacking from the Aegean. The rich written data dating from the Mycenaean period (the 2nd millennium BC) demonstrates, however, that similarly as in the Near East, also in Greece textiles and textile production belonged to one of the fundamental industries strictly controlled by the palace administrations. But when did it begin? We may look for the answers by studying archaeological material from the Early Bronze Age. Numerous textile tools discovered from the Greek sites, especially clay spindle whorls and loom weights, offer important insights into the techniques of production of textiles and cloth. Textile tools, and particularly spindle whorls used to produce yarns, may give some significant information about the potential types of fibres spun (plant and animal), and the quality of produced yarns. A thorough analysis of loom weights, on the other hand, shed light on possible types of fabrics woven on the warp-weighted loom, and even on the potential types of weaves employed (e.g. twill). The aim of the paper is to present the evidence based on the archaeological material for the use of different types of fibres and fabrics in the 3rd millennium Aegean, with a particular emphasis on the possible introduction and spread of the woolly wool (i.e. the long-staple wool). Probably, it was a result of long-distant cultural, economic, and trade contacts with Anatolia and other areas of the Near East. The main question to ask is whether it is possible to deduce from the textile tools when and how the new type of wool was introduced and how it may have influenced the textile tools and techniques in the Early Bronze Aegean.
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Classical textile remains in the British Museum Collection2016 •
Cloth remains from 1st millennium BC Greece are relatively rare. The majority of the surviving fragments have been preserved in a mineralised state on metal objects. Re-examination of metal and other artefacts in museum collections is increasingly adding to the existing textile corpus. Recently, the remains of two new textile fragments were identified on finds presented to the British Museum by the British Salonica Force in 1919. The paper presents the textiles and discusses their sig- nificance within the larger corpus of extant classical Greek textiles.
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