• Louise QUILLIEN - Kalliope SARRI (Eds.)

Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East

Proceedings of the Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016

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Louise QUILLIEN
is Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

Kalliope SARRI
is Guest Researcher at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen


Studies on ancient textiles currently know a considerable growth. This volume contributes to the field, focusing on craftmanship. By surveying various cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Aegean, the compiled articles offer an overview of textile workers in action from the Stone Age to Late Antiquity. Combining various approaches such as archaeology, text studies, and experimentation, the contributions explore the social status, gender, age, and working conditions of the textile workers. Moreover, they investigate their intellectual capability, through a study of the acquisition, performance and transmission of skills. This collective work aims at opening a new perspective in the field of textile studies, in particular in the history of textile crafts in ancient societies.

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Der vorliegende Band ist der antiken Textilforschung aus so unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln wie Archäologie, Schriftquellen oder Experimentalstudien gewidmet und bietet durch die Untersuchung verschiedener Kulturen des Alten Orients und der Ägäis einen Einblick in die Tätigkeit von Textilarbeiter*innen von der Steinzeit bis zur Spätantike. Die Beiträge untersuchen den sozialen Status, das Geschlecht, das Alter und die Arbeitsbedingungen der Textilarbeiter*innen. Darüber hinaus beschäftigen sie sich mit deren intellektuellen Möglichkeiten, indem sie den Erwerb, die Durchführung und die Weitergabe von Fertigkeiten untersuchen. Diese Publikation beleuchtet somit neue Aspekte im Bereich der Textilforschung, insbesondere in der Geschichte des Textilhandwerks in antiken Gesellschaften.

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Textile Workers in the Royal Archives of Mari (Syria, 18th Century BC)

    Cécile Michel

Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East, pp. 127-138, 2020/04/30

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Abstract

The 18th-century-BC archives excavated in the royal palace of Mari (Syria) document the management of a huge palace dated to the Middle Bronze Age. Administrative texts and letters mention the existence of a large textile industry where the majority of workers were women, mainly slaves and prisoners of war. Some women were referred to according to the type of textiles they were producing. The work of men seems to have been more specialised, and men were regularly at the head of teams of workers, receiving raw materials and delivering finished textiles and garments. However, women also supervised teams of textile workers that were usually mainly composed of women. The textile workshops were located outside of the palace walls and some included hundreds of workers. There is no archaeological evidence of these workshops at Mari. Large households belonging to high officials or private individuals could also include textile workshops.

Keywords: textile industry; Middle Bronze Age; Mari