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Author:   Aleksandra Hallmann
Publisher:   Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Imprint:   Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.164kg
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9781614911272

ISBN 10:   1614911274
Pages:   574
Publication Date:   18 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaches to Addressing Identities through Dress in the Ancient World Aleksandra Hallmann Part I: Clothing and Imperial Identity 1. Dress and Empire in the Ancient Americas. Claudia Brittenham 2. ""Silver for Clothing . . ."": Textiles and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age Near East. Jana Mynářová 3. Changing Textiles—Shifting Identities? The Transformation of Dress Practices in Gebel Adda, Late Antique Nubia. Magdalena M. Wozniak and Elsa Yvanez   4. Regional Dress in the Imperial Rhetoric of Achaemenid Persia: Subjective (Identity) and Objective (Ascription) Processes. Margaret C. Miller Part II: Distinctive, Associative, and Transformative Functions of Dress 5. Dress and Undress in the Akkadian Period. Benjamin R. Foster 6. The So-Called Persian Costume in Late Period Egypt Revisited. Aleksandra Hallmann 7. Clothing as a Marker of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Libyans. Robert K. Ritner, with minor contributions by Foy Scalf 8. Dress in Rome’s Northern Provinces. Ursula Rothe Part III: Construction of Cultic and Religious Dress 9. Divinely Royal: Garments of Kings and Priests in Ancient Greece, with Comparisons from the Ancient Near East and the Levant. Marie-Louise Nosch 10. ""A Religion without Priests""? Dressing the Dynamic Identities of Greek Religious Personnel. Laura Gawlinski 11. The Phenomenology and Sensory Experience of Dress in Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Allison Thomason 12. The Hasanlu Lion Pins and Communal Identity: The Case for Empathy in Interpretation. Megan Cifarelli 13. The Color of Cloth as a Transformative Marker of Identity in Ancient Egyptian Temple Rituals. Katarzyna Kapiec Part IV: Textiles and the Socioeconomic Functions of Dress 14. Textile Cultures of Mediterranean Europe in the Early First Millennium BCE: Technology, Tradition, Aesthetics, and Identity. Margarita Gleba 15. Wearing Wealth: Cloth and Clothing as Currency in Ancient Egypt. Brian Muhs 16. Identity Based on Coptic Textile Terminology in Late Antique Egypt. Tasha Vorderstrasse 17. Textile Dye Technology in Prehistoric Northern Chile. Hans Barnard, Ran Boytner, and Vicki Cassman Part V: Responses 18. Looking at, Trying on, and Giving Away Other People’s Clothes. Ann C. Gunter 19. Perspectives on Clothing and Identity in the Ancient World. Brian Muhs 20. Understanding the Material World: Weaving, Dress, and Meaning. Rita P. Wright Index

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Aleksandra Hallmann is an assistant professor at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). Her research focuses on dress studies, ancient textiles and the art and archaeology of Egypt in the first millennium BCE.

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