Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia
The Kingdom of Meroe (300 BCE-350 CE) developed a truly unique textile tradition, represented by hundreds of preserved fabrics, tools and iconographic representations. Together, this vast body of historical data provides a great opportunity to study patterns of textile production and consumption in...
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
2018-12-01
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The Kingdom of Meroe (300 BCE-350 CE) developed a truly unique textile tradition, represented by hundreds of preserved fabrics, tools and iconographic representations. Together, this vast body of historical data provides a great opportunity to study patterns of textile production and consumption in the Meroitic society. This paper will first focus on restoring textile implements to their archaeological locations in order to identify the different contexts and scales of textile manufacturing, primarily spinning and weaving. Far from homogenous, the Meroitic textile industry reflected the social complexity and the ethnic diversity of the kingdom. The paper’s second part will thus relate the settlement data on textile production to the finished products – fabrics and clothing – discovered in graves and depicted on reliefs and statues, thereby linking the textiles to the individuals using them. The role of the administrative and religious elite will particularly be discussed, both as commissioners and consumers of specific textile goods, as well as official relays in a state-controlled industry.
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| spelling | doaj-art-150fbfcddd29407cb86560f84192abf12025-08-20T02:37:29ZdeuInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of SciencesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae0860-00072719-70692018-12-013110.23858/FAH31.2018.006Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia Elsa Yvanez0Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Textile Research, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen The Kingdom of Meroe (300 BCE-350 CE) developed a truly unique textile tradition, represented by hundreds of preserved fabrics, tools and iconographic representations. Together, this vast body of historical data provides a great opportunity to study patterns of textile production and consumption in the Meroitic society. This paper will first focus on restoring textile implements to their archaeological locations in order to identify the different contexts and scales of textile manufacturing, primarily spinning and weaving. Far from homogenous, the Meroitic textile industry reflected the social complexity and the ethnic diversity of the kingdom. The paper’s second part will thus relate the settlement data on textile production to the finished products – fabrics and clothing – discovered in graves and depicted on reliefs and statues, thereby linking the textiles to the individuals using them. The role of the administrative and religious elite will particularly be discussed, both as commissioners and consumers of specific textile goods, as well as official relays in a state-controlled industry. https://journals.iaepan.pl/fah/article/view/2145archaeologyancient Sudan and NubiaMeroetextilescostumessocial display |
| spellingShingle | Elsa Yvanez Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae archaeology ancient Sudan and Nubia Meroe textiles costumes social display |
| title | Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia |
| title_full | Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia |
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| title_short | Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia |
| title_sort | clothing the elite patterns of textile production and consumption in ancient sudan and nubia |
| topic | archaeology ancient Sudan and Nubia Meroe textiles costumes social display |
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