• 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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Insights into the Professional Life of a Dyer’s Family from Sippar across the 6th Century BC

    Louise Quillien

Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East, pp. 149-159, 2020/04/30

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


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Abstract

Šamaš-aḫ-iddin and his descendants were coloured wool weavers and dyers, dependent workers of the Ebabbar Temple of Sippar. They oversaw part of the manufacturing of the precious garments offered to the god’s statues. The family is documented during three generations, from the reign of Nabopolassar (626–605 BC) to the reign of Cambyses (530–522 BC), in cuneiform tablets coming from the Ebabbar Temple archive. We will observe what the skills and social status of these workers were and how they passed down their knowledge from one generation to the next. The example of Šamaš-aḫ-iddin’s family reveals the specific working conditions of coloured wool dyers and weavers working for the Ebabbar Temple and the high degree of specialisation within the temple workforce. Despite the fact that they belonged to the lower category of craftsmen (oblates), they had a specialised knowledge and the temple administration entrusted to them important responsibilities, such as the purchase of raw materials and the supplying of coloured wool to the upper class of workers, the prebendary weavers.

Keywords: textile; weaver; dyeing; Babylonia; cuneiform; prosopography