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

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ID21242677
AuthorsAssaf Yasur-Landau (0000-0002-5692-5622, University of Haifa), Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi (University of Copenhagen)
Year2024
Volume11
Issue2
Pages345-360
Publication date2024-11-26
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ancient Near Eastern History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9554 • E-ISSN: 2328-9562
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/janeh-2024-0011
OpenAlexW4402336483
LanguageEN
References cited19

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze · Bronze Age · Clothing · Geography · Pottery · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · History

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