PURPUREAE VESTES, VI - Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. PROCEEDINGS OF THE VITH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (PADOVA - ESTE - ALTINO, ITALY 17 - 20 OCTOBER 2016) - M. S. BUSANA, M. GLEBA, F. MEO, A. R. TRICOMI

Textiles and Dyes in the MediterraneanEconomy and Society PURPUREAE VESTES VI Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity 

Maria Stella Busana, Margarita Gleba, Francesco Meoand Anna Rosa Tricomi (eds.)

Preface
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TURKEY, CYPRUS AND GREECE
I. Caneva, S. Ficco: Filatura e tessitura a Mersin-Yumuktepe (Turchia) nel VI-V millennio a.C.
H. Landenius Enegren: Ancient Cyprus: Bronze Age textile remnants and tools – a crossroads of spinning and weaving
cultures?
A. Ulanowska, M. Siennicka: The economics of textiles in Bronze Age Greece
I. Benda-Weber: Early Greek garments: indications for weaving techniques and textile ornaments on representations and
evidence of contemporary textile remains
F. Saranti, G.I. Nikolovieni: Textile tools from ancient Makyneia (Greece): the case of Buildings A and B
C. Margariti: A 5th century BC textile find with evidence of embroidery from Attica, Greece
S. Spantidaki: Investigating maritime textiles in Classical Greece: sails and rigging of the Athenian fleet
ITALY AND ADRIATIC AREA
C. Minniti, G. Recchia: New evidence on purple dye production from the Bronze Age settlement of Coppa Nevigata (Apulia,
Italy)
F. Gonzato: Bronze Age textile tools from Oppeano 4D, Italy
J. De Grossi Mazzorin, C. Minniti: Caprine varieties in Italy during the Iron Age: the evidence from zooarchaeological data
F. Meo: Textile production in Magna Graecia: preliminary considerations
F. Mermati: Versabat pollice fusum. Manufatti relativi alla produzione tessile nelle sepolture femminili orientalizzanti della
Piana del Sarno
A. Quercia: Weaving during the Archaic period in South Italy: two key studies
E. Catalli, M. Corrente, A. Di Giovanni, M.R. Giuliani, M.C. Laurenti, M. Pastorelli: Spinning and weaving by Herdonia women
M. Kleibrink: Textile utensils from Francavilla Marittima (Lagaria), Italy
E. Bianchin Citton: Strumenti per la filatura e la tessitura dall’abitato protostorico di Montagnana-Borgo S. Zeno (Italia)
M. Vidale , P. Michelini, Some thoughts on the visibility of textile manufacturing in Padua (Italy) during the 1st millennium BC
M. Gamba, G. Gambacurta: The loom: from excavation to textile in pre-Roman Veneto, Italy, 6th to 2nd century BC
A. Ruta Serafini, M. Gleba: Evidence of ossuary dressing in the funerary rituals of pre-Roman Veneto (Italy)
M. Tirelli, S. Di Martino, E. Rettore, M. Rottoli: Astucci con tracce di tessuto dal santuario del dio Altino (Italia)
A. Tonc, I. Radman-Livaja: Protohistoric dye production on the Eastern Adriatic?
S. Marchesini, M. Migliavacca: The inscribed loom weights from Monte Loffa, Monti Lessini (Verona, Italy): can we “crack”
the code?
S. Scansetti: Resti tessili da contesti sepolcrali tardo celtici in provincia di Pavia (Italia)
L. Ambrosini, S. Gatti: Strumenti in osso per la filatura e tessitura da vecchi e nuovi scavi di Palestrina (Italia)
L. Russo: Manufatti in osso per la produzione e la confezione di stoffe ad Ostia (Italia)
M. Galli, F. Coletti, C. Lemorini, S. Mitschke: The Textile culture at Pompeii Project
C. Corti: La produzione tessile a Mutina: il caso della villa della Scartazza
F. Maeder, F. Médard: Too good to be true - No sea-silk in Pompeii
A.R. Tricomi: Instrumenta textilia nella Venetia romana: Il progetto Pondera (2009-2015)
D. Francisci: Multivariate statistics applied to spinning and weaving instruments from Roman Venetia (Italy): some
preliminary results
S. Cipriano: Spinning and weaving at the sanctuary of Reitia in Este (Italy) during Roman times
M.S. Busana, M. Gleba: Textile production and consumption in Roman Venetia (Italy): preliminary results of the study of
mineralised fibres and textiles
P. Basso, M. Gleba: A Roman lamp with remains of a wick from the necropolis of Gazzo Veronese (Verona), Italy
M. Rigoni, M. Rottoli: La conservazione di frammenti di tessuti attraverso il processo di mineralizzazione: due casi del Veneto
(Italia)
G. Cavalieri Manasse, C. Giostra, M. Rottoli: La sepoltura longobarda di Verona, vicolo Bernardo da Canal (Italia): un caso
insolito di conservazione dei resti tessili
A. Luciano: Tessuti per i santi. L’epoca tardoantica
ROMAN PROVINCES
C. Rossi: The Lanifica Project: the feminine ideal and textile crafts in Roman burial practices. Results from southern Gaul
F. Médard, D. Djaoui, avec la collaboration de Stephan Knopf: Chiffons gallo-romains. Un exemple inédit de recyclage
C. Alfaro, M. Urteaga, P. Alkaín: Some wool textile fragments from the Roman port of Oiasso (Irun, Spain)
M.I. Ruiz de Haro: Il significato delle fusarole del deposito votivo di Zacatín e la loro relazione con il culto del fiume Darro
(Granada, Spagna)
M. Bustamante-Álvarez, A.M. Bejarano Osorio, M.J. Martínez García: A possible artisanal complex dedicated to the treatment
of coccum in Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Badajoz, Spain)
M. Öhrman: Roman looms in Potamius of Lisbon’s Epistula de Substantia
A. Facen, M. Fiorillo: Gli artigiani tessili nell’Egitto greco e romano: il lessico della documentazione
L. Bender Jørgensen: The textiles from Mons Claudianus in a north African context
I. Bogensperger, A. Koroli: Qualities of textiles and their terminology in documentary papyri from Egypt
M.J. Martínez-García: Alchemists or dyers? The art of dyeing in the Greco-Roman Egypt
C. Brøns, M. L. Sargent: Pigments and dyes: the use of colourants for the depiction of garments on Egyptian mummy
portraits in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
J. Ortiz-García, A.-K. Gill: Newly identified fragments of a Roman painted shroud from the Centre de Documentació i Museu
Tèxtil of Terrassa, Spain
L. Rodríguez Peinado: The colour purple in Late Antiquity textiles: application in Spanish fabric collections
TRANSVERSAL TOPICS
L. Larson Lovén: Searching for the dyers in Roman textile production
K. Caulfield: The hand-held distaff: also known as the underestimated stick
C. Corti, M. Sanfelici: Bone needles and textile production during Roman times: a new proposal
L. Pedroni: Tra le pieghe della tradizione. Agatocle inventore della trabea (Lyd. Mens. 1.21 W.)
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