Cypriot Fabrics? White Slip Pottery and Élite Linen Clothes of the Late Bronze Age-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Cypriot Fabrics? White Slip Pottery and Élite Linen Clothes of the Late Bronze Age

Published:2024-09-09 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2328-9554
Container-title:Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History
language:en
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Author:

Yasur-Landau Assaf¹^ORCID,Spinazzi-Lucchesi Chiara²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Maritime Civilizations, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures , 26748 University of Haifa , Israel

2. The Saxo Institute Centre for Textile Research , University of Copenhagen , Kobenhavn , Region Hovedstaden , Denmark

Abstract

Abstract In this article we will point to the similarity between the decoration on Cypriot White Slip (WS) I and II pottery and contemporary 15th–14th-century BCE “Syrian” elite garments shown in 18th Dynasty Egyptian tombs. Depiction of men and women in the tombs of Rekhmire (TT100), Sobekhotep (TT63), Menkheperraseneb (TT86), and Anen (TT120) show white clothes decorated with both vertical and horizontal elements, with dotted and wavy additions. Such elements find direct parallels in the WS I decorative “vocabulary.” We will examine the possibility that the Cypriot WS pottery imitates elite linen clothing produced during the international Late Bronze Age, some even on Cyprus, as indicated by the mention of “linen of Alashiya” (gad uru Alašiya) in Hittite inventory texts.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/janeh-2024-0011/pdf

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