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Assyrian Textiles: A Study on the Terminology and the Material Culture of the Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

 Coordinatore KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET 

 Organization address postcode: 1017

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ivan
Cognome: Kristoffersen
Email: send email
Telefono: +45 35322626
Fax: +45 35324612

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Denmark [DK]
 Totale costo 298˙932 €
 EC contributo 298˙932 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-04-26   -   2015-04-25

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1 KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET DK coordinator 298˙932.60

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historical    evidence    textile    terminology    sources    first    textiles    texts    world    millennium    bc    culture    assyrian    neo    ancient    designations   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project, framed in the research programme Textile Terminologies 1000 BC to AD 1000 of the Centre for Textile Research, will catalogue and investigate the textile terminology in use in the Neo-Assyrian period (first millennium BC). The research is intended to give the scholars of both Oriental studies and of ancient textile studies a comprehensive study on the Assyrian textiles seen as historical sources to understand the organization of economy, the culture, and the society of the first world empire in history, thus challenging the dialogue of specialists of different historical periods and areas of the Ancient World about the textile terminology and the role of textiles in the development of economies and societies as well as in shaping realities through aesthetical and ideological conceptualization. In the past twenty years, the publication of a major part of the Assyrian texts in updated scientific editions provided a comprehensive evidence of a large set of lexical data concerning various types of goods. An accurate explanation of the semantics of many designations of material culture, however, is still a desideratum. This research is aimed at bridging this gap in the studies on the Akkadian textile terminology of the first millennium BC, publishing a still missing complete study of the Neo-Assyrian textiles. More importantly, it will be based on an interdisciplinary approach on the topic. Textiles represent important historical sources for the understanding of a given civilization. Accordingly, their designations in ancient texts must be analysed in a closer comparison with the representations of textile products in the visual art and in the archaeological evidence. Moreover, this project will also explore the possibility to use ethnographical evidence about production, decoration, and aesthetics of textiles in traditional communities of Middle Eastern countries in historical research on ancient textiles.'

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